What, if anything, does visual asymmetry in fallow deer antlers reveal?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 193-199

  Pélabon, Christophe ^a   Joly, Pierre ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; SIGNAL; UNGULATE;

DAMA DAMA;

EID: 0342615002     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1291     Document Type: Article

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