No relationship between territory size and the risk of cuckoldry in birds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 915-923

  Rodrigues, Marcos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIFFCHAFF; CUCKOLDRY; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; TERRITORY SIZE;

PHYLLOSCOPUS COLLYBITA;

EID: 0032055320     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0614     Document Type: Article

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