The role of bright plumage in male-male interactions in the ring-necked pheasant

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1205-1214

  Mateos, Concha ^a   Carranza, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; MALE-MALE INTERACTION; PLUMAGE COLOUR; RING-NECKED PHEASANT;

AVES; PHASIANIDAE; PHASIANUS COLCHICUS;

EID: 0030681230     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0516     Document Type: Article

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