'Copying mate choice': Which phenomena deserve this term?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-102

  Kraak, Sarah B M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Copying mate choice; Proximate ultimate causes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION;

EID: 0029863477     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00020-8     Document Type: Article

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