Group leaving in Mountain goats: Are young males ousted by adult females?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 243-246

  Romeo, Giorgia ^a   Lovari, Sandro ^a   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^b  

^a Ethology and Behav Ecology Group   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Male emigration; Oreamnos americanus; Sex segregation

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GOAT; MALE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031239950     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00020-X     Document Type: Article

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