Sexual selection and information content in gibbon song bouts

Ethology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 272-284

  Cowlishaw, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEXUAL SELECTION; TERRITORIALITY;

HYLOBATES;

EID: 0029663464     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01125.x     Document Type: Article

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