Individual and temporal variation in cloacal protuberance size of male Bearded Tits (Panurus biarmicus)

Auk

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 964-969

  Sax, Andreas ^a   Hoi, Herbert ^a  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

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PANURUS BIARMICUS;

EID: 0031728302     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089514     Document Type: Article

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