Female red deer prefer the roars of larger males

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 382-385

  Charlton, Benjamin D ^a   Reby, David ^a   McComb, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic cues to body size; Female mating preferences; Formant frequencies; Red deer; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BODY SIZE; DEER; MATE CHOICE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOE (DEER); ESTRUS; FEMALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED DEER; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANIMAL; DEER; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

CERVUS ELAPHUS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DEER; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 35248845607     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0244     Document Type: Article

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