Extreme sexual size dimorphism, sexual selection, and the foraging ecology of Montezuma Oropendolas

Auk

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 570-580

  Webster, Michael S ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FORAGING; MONTEZUMA OROPENDOLA; SEXUAL SELECTION; SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MONTEZUMA; MONTEZUMA OROPENDOLAS; PSAROCOLIUS; PSAROCOLIUS MONTEZUMA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 0030747081     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089276     Document Type: Article

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