Predator-induced natural selection on temperament in bighorn ewes

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 463-470

  Réale, Denis ^a,b   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; SHEEP; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 0038814876     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2100     Document Type: Article

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