On Becoming Independent in Herring Gulls: Parent-Young Conflict
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 117 (4) , 444-456
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283727
Abstract
The conflict between parents and young concerning parental provisioning and defense of the young, and the variability in the termination of parental care was examined in herring gulls in New Jersey, USA. Territory usage, feeding behavior, aggression, territory defense, sex differences in care and postfledging territory defense were examined.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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