Infanticide in great reed warblers: Secondary females destroy eggs of primary females

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 297-304

  Hansson, Bengt ^a   Bensch, Staffan ^a   Hasselquist, Dennis ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 0031213853     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0484     Document Type: Article

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