Prenatal environmental effects match offspring begging to parental provisioning
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Prenatal environmental effects match offspring begging to parental provisioning.
The solicitation behaviours performed by dependent young are under selection from the environment created by their parents, as well as wider ecological conditions. Here we show how mechanisms acting before hatching enable canary offspring to adapt their begging behaviour to a variable post-hatching world. Cross-fostering experiments revealed that canary nestling begging intensity is positively ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0375