Female mate guarding: No evidence in a socially monogamous species

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 201-207

  Creighton, Emma ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST; MATE GUARDING; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPERM COMPETITION;

TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 0033983039     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1292     Document Type: Article

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