Mate choice and competition for mates in the boat-tailed grackle

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 525-534

  Poston, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE; BREEDING BEHAVIOUR; MALE-MALE COMPETITION; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

QUISCALUS; QUISCALUS MAJOR;

EID: 0031239067     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0447     Document Type: Article

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