Proximate and ultimate causes of adoption in ring-billed gulls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1529-1543

  Brown, Kevin M ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0032456665     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0913     Document Type: Article

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