Is there a sex-specific difference between parasitic chicks in begging behaviour?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F15%3A43888700" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/15:43888700 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68081766:_____/15:00443094 RIV/00216224:14310/15:00094017

Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10164-015-0427-7" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10164-015-0427-7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-015-0427-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10164-015-0427-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Is there a sex-specific difference between parasitic chicks in begging behaviour?

Original language description

Offspring of birds and mammals demand food from their parents through an array of movements and vocalisations known collectively as begging behaviour. We explored sex-specific differences in the begging behaviour of a brood parasite, the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), fostered by the great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus). As adult male parasites are larger than female parasites, we predicted that male chicks would vocalise more than female chicks. We also predicted a higher frequency of pecking in male chicks than female chicks, and in older compared to younger chicks. Pecking was considered to be any sudden attack of the parasite directed at the head or body of the hosts. Our observations confirmed that there were no sex-specific differences in nestling begging vocalisation and that older chicks tended to deliver more pecks at their hosts than younger ones. One explanation for the lack of intersexual differences in begging vocalisation is that the common cuckoo is an evicto

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP506%2F12%2F2404" target="_blank" >GAP506/12/2404: Host-parasite interaction as an extreme form of parent-offspring conflict</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Ethology

ISSN

0289-0771

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

JP - JAPAN

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

151-158

UT code for WoS article

000352860300008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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