Zebra stripes as an amplifier of individual quality?

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 368-376

  Ljetoff, Marika ^a   Folstad, Ivar ^a   Skarstein, Frode ^a   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; MAMMAL; MOVEMENT; PIGMENT; PREDATOR; SIGNAL;

EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS;

EID: 36149000566     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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