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Begging the question: are offspring solicitation behaviours signals of need?
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kilner, R., & Johnstone, R. A.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1997-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 11-15
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2030532955
- Cited by
- 486
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 3.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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