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Early-life begging effort reduces adult body mass but strengthens behavioural defence of the rate of energy intake in European starlings

Animals require strategies for coping with periods when food is scarce. Such strategies include storing fat as a buffer, and defending the rate of energy intake by changing foraging behaviour when food becomes difficult to obtain. Storage and behavioural defence may constitute alternative strategies...

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Autores principales: Dunn, Jonathon, Andrews, Clare, Nettle, Daniel, Bateson, Melissa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5990846/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29892383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171918