Nestling barn owls beg more intensely in the presence of their mother than in the presence of their father
- Roulin, Alexandre Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Bersier, Louis-Félix Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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04.09.2007
Published in:
- Animal Behaviour. - 2007, vol. 74, no. 4, p. 1099-1106
barn owl
begging
parent–offspring conflict
parental care
sexual conflict
sibling negotiation
Tyto alba
English
Nestling begging behaviour may be an honest signal of need used by parents to adjust optimally both feeding rate and within-brood food allocation. Although several studies showed that mothers and fathers can be differentially responsive to nestling begging behaviour with one parent showing a stronger tendency to feed the offspring that beg the most, little information is yet available on... Show more…
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences
- Department
- Biologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biology
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- RERO DOC 8836
- DOI 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.027
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300574