Signals in intra-sexual competition between ring-necked pheasant males

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 471-485

  Mateos, Concha ^a   Carranza, Juan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRASEXUAL COMPETITION; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENT; RING-NECKED PHEASANT;

PHASIANUS COLCHICUS;

EID: 0031082119     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0297     Document Type: Article

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