Female bluethroats prefer males with symmetric colour bands

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-87

  Fiske, Peder ^a   Amundsen, Trond ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUETHROAT; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; LEG BAND; ORNAMENT;

LUSCINIA; LUSCINIA SVECICA; LUSCINIA SVECICA SVECICA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0031194078     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0436     Document Type: Article

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