Mating tactics of male Cape ground squirrels, Xerus inauris: Consequences of year-round breeding

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 459-466

  Waterman, Jane M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; RODENT;

RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS ADOCETUS; VERTEBRATA; XERUS INAURIS;

EID: 0032143404     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0780     Document Type: Article

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