Female zebra finches prefer symmetrically banded males, but only during interactive mate choice tests

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1113-1119

  Waas, Joseph R ^a   Wordsworth, Angela F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; PASSERINE;

FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0033135136     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1055     Document Type: Article

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