Multiple ornaments are positively related to male survival in the common pheasant

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 143-147

  Papeschi, Anna ^a   Dessì Fulgheri, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMEBIRD; ORNAMENTATION; SELECTION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SURVIVAL; VIABILITY;

PHASIANIDAE; PHASIANUS COLCHICUS;

EID: 0037270337     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.2013     Document Type: Article

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