Obligate monogamy without paternal care in Kirk's dikdik

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 131-140

  Komers, Petr E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MADOQUA KIRKI;

KIRK'S DIKDIK; MONOGAMY; PATERNAL CARE;

EID: 0029669176     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0011     Document Type: Article

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