Sexual conflicts in spotted hyenas: Male and female mating tactics and their reproductive outcome with respect to age, social status and tenure

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1521, 2003, Pages 1247-1254

  East, Marion L ^a,b   Burke, Terry ^c   Wilhelm, Kerstin ^a,b   Greig, Carolyn ^d   Hofer, Heribert ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Max Planck Inst V   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Female mate choice; Inbreeding; Infanticide; Multiple paternity; Sexual conflict; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; MATE CHOICE; MATERNAL CARE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; SPERM COMPETITION;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COPULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FISH; INFANTICIDE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMALIA; CROCUTA CROCUTA;

EID: 0037899601     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2363     Document Type: Article

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