Removing the confound of time in investigating the regulation of serial behaviours: Testosterone, prolactin and the transition from sexual to parental activity in male American kestrels

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1151-1161

  Sockman, Keith W ^a,c   Schwabl, Hubert ^a   Sharp, Peter J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; HORMONE; RAPTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

FALCO; FALCO SPARVERIUS;

EID: 3042741276     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.07.011     Document Type: Article

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