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Begging response of gull chicks to the red spot on the parental bill

Authors: Alberto Velando, Sin-Yeon Kim, Jose Carlos Noguera

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: begging response, coadaptation, cross-fostering, larus michahellis, parent–offspring communication, parental signal, releasing mechanism, tinbergen, yellow-legged gull

2013

Signals in family conflicts

Authors: Judith Morales, Alberto Velando

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: coevolution, information, manipulation, negotiation, parent–offspring conflict, parental care, sexual conflict, sexual imprinting, sexual signal, sibling conflict

2013

The wages of violence: mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds

Authors: Ros Gloag, Vanina D. Fiorini, Juan C. Reboreda, Alex Kacelnik

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood parasitism, chalk-browed mockingbird, egg puncture, frontline defence, host–parasite coevolution, mimus saturninus, molothrus bonariensis, nest defence, shiny cowbird

2013

Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment

Authors: T. Stankowich, D. T. Blumstein

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: anti-predator behaviour, fear, flight initiation distance, meta-analysis, risk perception

2005

Courtship and mate choice in fishes- integrating behavioral and sensory ecology

Authors: R. C. Sargent, V. N. Rush, B. D. Wisenden, H. Y. Yan

Publication/Journal: American Zoologist

Keywords: coevolution, coursthip, gasterosteus aculeatus, guppy, ornament, poecilia reticulata, preference, sexual selection, threespine stickleback

1998

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