Seasonal changes of vocal rates and their relation to territorial status in male Galápagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki)

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 381-388

  Kunc, Hansjoerg P ^a,b   Wolf, Jochen B W ^a,c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); MATE CHOICE; PINNIPED; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; ZALOPHUS WOLLEBAEKI;

EID: 40849119965     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01484.x     Document Type: Article

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