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Sibling Competition and Conspicuousness of Nestling Gapes in Altricial Birds: A Comparative Study

BACKGROUND: Nestlings of altricial birds capture parents' attention through conspicuous visual displays, including exposure of their gape coloration which informs parents about their level of need, competitive ability or health; information that parents use for deciding food allocation among th...

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Autores principales: Soler, Juan J., Avilés, Jesús M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20463902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010509