Lekking in marine iguanas: Female grouping and male reproductive strategies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 581-596

  Wikelski, Martin ^a   Carbone, Chris ^b   Trillmich, Fritz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYRHYNCHUS CRISTATUS; IGUANIA; SQUAMATA;

HOTSHOT MODEL; LEKKING; MARINE IGUANA; SNEAK COPULATION; TERRITORIALITY;

PACIFIC, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

EID: 0030222865     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0199     Document Type: Article

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