Battle of the sexes: Forcibly inseminating male garter snakes target courtship to more vulnerable females

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1133-1140

  Shine, Richard ^a   Wall, Michael ^a   Langkilde, Tracy ^a   Mason, Robert T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; SNAKE;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS;

EID: 22144435443     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.03.013     Document Type: Article

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