Sex allocation in a polygynous mammal with large litters: The wild boar

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1079-1084

  Fernández Llario, Pedro ^a   Carranza, Juan ^a   Mateos Quesada, Patricio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITTER SIZE; MATERNAL CARE; SEX ALLOCATION; UNGULATE;

ARTIODACTYLA; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344672504     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1234     Document Type: Article

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