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Published online 26 November 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031124-3
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Chicks unite to increase parent-pestering
Coordinated begging extracts more food.
Children accompanying their parents on Christmas shopping trips: take a tip from black-headed gull chicks, and team up with your siblings to increase pester power.
Gull nestlings put aside their differences and coordinate their begging to extract the maximum amount of regurgitated food from mum and dad, French researchers have discovered.
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