Calling by male midwife toads stimulates females to maintain reproductive condition

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 373-377

  Lea, Jeremy ^a   Dyson, Miranda ^a   Halliday, Tim ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; MALE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; TOAD;

ALYTES MULETENSIS; ALYTES OBSTETRICANS; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034975551     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1604     Document Type: Article

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