The effect of leg band symmetry on female-male association in zebra finches

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-67

  Jennions, Michael D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEG BAND; SYMMETRY; ZEBRA FINCH;

FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0031971256     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0579     Document Type: Article

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