The functional significance of sexual display: Stone carrying in the black wheatear

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 247-254

  Soler, M ^a   Soler, J J ^b   Moller A P ^b   Moreno, J ^c   Linden M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK WHEATEAR; DISPLAY; SEXUAL DISPLAY; STONE CARRYING;

OENANTHE LEUCURA; TURBIDAE;

EID: 0029667645     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0025     Document Type: Article

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