Kin discrimination in a macropod marsupial

Ethology

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 815-823

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a,b   Ardron, Jodie G ^b   Evans, Christopher S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINSHIP; MARSUPIAL; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 0036742880     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00813.x     Document Type: Article

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