Female accompaniment by male whiptail lizards: Is it mate guarding?

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1383-1402

  Zaldívar Rae, Jaime ^a   Drummond, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Accompaniment; Aspidoscelis costata; Mate guarding; Teiidae; Whiptail lizards

Indexed keywords

ASPIDOSCELIS COSTATA; SQUAMATA; TEIIDAE;

EID: 35948929487     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907782418187     Document Type: Article

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