Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!spam!spam.ua.oz.au!wvenable From: wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: feeding-rate Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 90 02:37:15 GMT References: <948@massey.ac.nz> <1178@cluster.cs.su.oz> Sender: wvenable@spam.ua.oz Organization: Adelaide University. Lines: 13 In-reply-to: andrewt@cs.su.oz's message of 5 Sep 90 07:12:40 GMT In article <1178@cluster.cs.su.oz> andrewt@cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor) writes: > ... > Yes it's been shown for several birds that the hunger cry of the young > is the most effective stimulus for feeding and that increasing this > stimulus increases the frequency of feeding. According to Rowley some Australian cuckoos still have a feeding impulse in response to the calls of young cuckoos, even though they make no nest and rely almost entirely on brood parisitism for raising their young. -- Bill Venables, Dept. of Statistics, | Email: venables@spam.adelaide.edu.au Univ. of Adelaide, South Australia. | Phone: +61 8 228 5412