Female mate choice and male behaviour in domestic fowl

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1099-1105

  Leonard, Marty L ^a   Zanette, Liana ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0032212807     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0886     Document Type: Article

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