High-speed video analysis reveals individual variability in the courtship displays of male Golden-collared manakins

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 964-972

  Fusani, Leonida ^a   Giordano, Marta ^a   Day, Lainy B ^b   Schlinger, Barney A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; LEK; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VIDEOGRAPHY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANIMALIA; AVES; MANACUS; MANACUS VITELLINUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 34548790121     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01395.x     Document Type: Article

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