Male spacing behaviour and acoustic interactions in a field cricket: implications for female mate choice

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1045-1058

  Mhatre, Natasha ^a   Balakrishnan, Rohini ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CRICKET; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FIELD METHOD; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; SPACING;

GRYLLINAE; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 33750348158     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.02.022     Document Type: Article

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