Processes underlying parental care decisions and creching behaviour: Clarification of hypotheses

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-128

  Pöysä, Hannu ^a   Milonoff, Markku ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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