Territoriality and monogamous pairs in a solitary ungulate, the Japanese serow, Capricornis crispus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 673-682

  Kishimoto, Ryosuke ^a   Kawamichi, Takeo ^b  

^a Nagano Nat Conservaion Res Inst   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPRICORNIS CRISPUS;

JAPANESE SEROW; MONOGAMY; POLYGYNY; TERRITORIALITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030251210     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0212     Document Type: Article

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