Sex of the foetus determines the time of weaning of the previous offspring of captive plains zebra (Equus burchelli)

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 105, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 192-204

  Pluháček, Jan ^a,b   Bartoš, Luděk ^a   Doležalová, Miroslava ^c   Bartošová Víchová, Jitka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Dvůr Králové Zoological Gardens ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Equus burchelli; Maternal investment; Trivers Willard model; Weaning time; Zebra; Zoo

Indexed keywords

AGE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; UNGULATE; WEANING; ZOO;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS BURCHELLII; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 34247523809     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.05.019     Document Type: Article

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