Boofheads with deep voices: Sexual dimorphism in the Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata

Wildfowl

Volumn 49, Issue , 1998, Pages 72-91

  Whitehead, Peter J ^a  

^a Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Territory   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cranial bump; Growth patterns; Magpie Goose; Morphometrics; Sexual Dimorphism; Sexual selection; Tracheal elaboration

Indexed keywords

ANSERANAS SEMIPALMATA;

EID: 0032412215     PISSN: 09546324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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