Fighting ability and motivation: determinants of dominance and contest strategies in females of a passerine bird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1675-1681

  Jonart, Leslie M ^a   Hill, Geoffrey E ^a   Badyaev, Alexander V ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; Carpodacus mexicanus; communication; house finch; passerines; resource holding potential

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BODY SIZE; CONTEST COMPETITION; DOMINANCE; FIGHTING; FITNESS; HONEST SIGNALING; PASSERINE; SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 36749097987     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.03.012     Document Type: Article

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