Brood mate eviction or brood mate acceptance by brood parasitic nestlings? An experimental study wit...
Brood mate eviction or brood mate acceptance by brood parasitic nestlings? An experimental study with the non-evictor great spotted cuckoo and its magpie host
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer
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English
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Some avian brood parasitic nestlings are highly virulent, destroying all host eggs or nestmates, while others accept growing up together with host nestmates. The traditional idea was that all brood parasitic nestlings would benefit from being alone in the host nest. Thus, why do nestlings of some brood parasitic species accept the company of host o...
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Brood mate eviction or brood mate acceptance by brood parasitic nestlings? An experimental study with the non-evictor great spotted cuckoo and its magpie host
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1323808421
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1323808421
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0340-5443
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1432-0762
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10.1007/s00265-013-1479-8
