Consistency of female choice in the tungara frog: A permissive preference for complex characters

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 641-649

  Kime, N M ^a   Rand, A S ^b   Kapfer, M ^c   Ryan, M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING; FEMALE CHOICE; MATING CALL; SEXUAL SELECTION; TUNGARA FROG;

PHYSALAEMUS PUSTULOSUS;

EID: 0031900015     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0752     Document Type: Article

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