Confirmation of infanticide in the communally breeding Guira Cuckoo

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 847-851

  Macedo, Regina H F ^a   Melo, Celine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

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GUIRA GUIRA;

EID: 0032818276     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089349     Document Type: Article

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