Nicholas B. Davies

Recognition errors and probability of parasitism determine whether reed warblers should accept or reject mimetic cuckoo eggs

Nicholas B. Davies, M. de L. Brooke, Alejandro Kacelnik · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1996 · 289 citations

Biology, Reed Warblers, Mimetic Cuckoo Eggs +8

An introduction to behavioural ecology, 2nd ed.

John R. Krebs, Nicholas B. Davies, Jan Parr · 1987 · 233 citations

Animal Behaviour, Animal Behavior, Behavioral Sciences +1

Strategic Variation in Mobbing as a Front Line of Defense against Brood Parasitism

Justin A. Welbergen, Nicholas B. Davies · Current Biology · 2009 · 192 citations · Full text

Behavioral Sciences, Foraging, Fitness +11

Social Transmission of a Host Defense Against Cuckoo Parasitism

Nicholas B. Davies, Justin A. Welbergen · Science · 2009 · 161 citations

Biology, Social Transmission, Fitness +14

A parasite in wolf's clothing: hawk mimicry reduces mobbing of cuckoos by hosts

Justin A. Welbergen, Nicholas B. Davies · Behavioral Ecology · 2011 · 110 citations · Full text

Engineering, Fitness, Entomology +16