A test of male mating and hunting success in the kestrel: The advantages of smallness?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 375-380

  Hakkarainen, Harri ^a   Huhta, Esa ^b   Lahti, Katriina ^a   Lundvall, Päivi ^a   Mappes, Tapio ^b   Tolonen, Pasi ^c   Wiehn, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body size; Hunting success; Mate choice; Raptor; Reversed sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

FALCO TINNUNCULUS; MURIDAE; RAPTORES;

EID: 0030467940     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050303     Document Type: Article

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