Are social factors sufficient to explain sexual segregation in ungulates?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 827-834

  Pérez Barbería, F Javier ^a   Robertson, Ewen ^a   Gordon, Iain J ^a,b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; UNGULATA;

EID: 15744400990     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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