Sexual selection and social rank in bighorn rams

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 649-655

  Pelletier, Fanie ^a   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; UNGULATE;

OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 33644642107     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.07.008     Document Type: Article

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