Extra male parental behaviour: Evidence for an alternative mating strategy in the Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 88-91

  Fessl, Birgit ^a   Kleindorfer, Sonia ^a   Hoi, Herbert ^a   Lorenz, Konrad ^a  

^a Kornad Lorenz Inst Vergleichende V   (Austria)

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ACROCEPHALUS MELANOPOGON;

EID: 0029738113     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3676965     Document Type: Article

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