Mutual ornamentation, sexual selection, and social dominance in the black swan

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 380-389

  Kraaijeveld, Ken ^a,d   Gregurke, John ^b   Hall, Carol ^b   Komdeur, Jan ^c   Mulder, Raoul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Ballarat Field Naturalists   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black swans; Cygnus atratus; Dominance; Mutual sexual selection; Ornamentation; Signaling; Social selection

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DOMINANCE; ORNAMENTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANSERIFORMES; AVES; CYGNUS ATRATUS;

EID: 2542500346     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh023     Document Type: Article

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