Social interactions of yearling male fallow deer during rut

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 247-258

  Pélabon, Christophe ^a   Komers, Petr E ^b   Birgersson, Bjorn ^b   Ekvall, Kenneth ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; MAMMAL; RUTTING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0344507311     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00384.x     Document Type: Article

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