Female choice and plasticity of male calling behaviour in the Pacific treefrog

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1337-1342

  Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a   Rose, Gary J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; FROG; MATE CHOICE;

ANURA; HYLA; HYLA REGILLA; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA;

EID: 0033029425     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1111     Document Type: Article

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