Alternating sexual segregation during the mating season by male African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-299

  Turner, Wendy C ^a,c   Jolles, Anna E ^b   Owen Smith, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Sexual segregation; Social segregation; Syncerus caffer; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; MATING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; TIME ALLOCATION; UNGULATE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

SYNCERUS CAFFER; UNGULATA;

EID: 26844483121     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095283690500748X     Document Type: Article

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