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Escalated begging does not compromise nestling health.
Article in Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- The Impairment of Body Condition Transiently Increases Oxidative Stress: A Dietary Restriction Experiment in Partridges.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2025Article
- An immune challenge affects growth dynamics, oxidative stress and survival in wild spotless starling nestlings.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Escalated begging does not compromise nestling health.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
A widely accepted explanation for the reliability of offspring begging signals assumes a differential benefit model balanced by direct viability costs independent of offspring nutritional condition. However, supporting evidence for this idea is inconclusive and often hampered by methodological limitations, including differential stimulation protocols and reliance on single, potentially biased markers of nestling health. This study tested the existence of direct, intrinsic, and condition-independent allocation trade-offs between begging and body mass, immunity and oxidative stress by manipulating the begging effort of spotless starling (
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