Why Do Northern Mockingbirds Feed Fruit to Their Nestlings?
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 86 (3), 281-287
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1366996
Abstract
We tested two predictions of Morton's (1973) hypothesis that nestling frugivory becomes profitable as nestlings develop endothermy. Parent Northern Mockingb...This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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