Testing the function of petal-carrying in the Red-backed Fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus)

Emu

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-92

  Karubian, Jordan ^a,b   Alvarado, Allison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COURTSHIP; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION;

BANKSIA; GAHNIA; LANTANA; MALURUS; MALURUS MELANOCEPHALUS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0038711881     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU01063     Document Type: Article

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