The wages of violence: Mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds
For many hosts of brood-parasitic birds, their frontline of defence is to mob adult parasites that approach the nest. Mobbing is commonly interpreted as an adaptation to prevent the parasite from laying, although to date evidence of this is indirect or anecdotal. We investigated the effectiveness of...
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| Autores principales: | Gloag, R., Fiorini, V.D., Reboreda, J.C., Kacelnik, A. |
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| Formato: | JOUR |
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| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00033472_v86_n5_p1023_Gloag |
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