Looking after your partner: sentinel behaviour in a socially monogamous bird
Natural selection favours those individuals with effective anti-predator defences. The presence of sentinels is known to be an effective form of defence amongst stable groups of individuals within cooperative and polygynous breeding systems. However, the presence of sentinels in the more prevalent s...
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| Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2013-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/83.pdf |