Male infanticide and paternity analyses in a socially natural herd of Przewalski's horses: Sexual selection?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 335-339

  Feh, C ^a   Munkhtuya, B ^b  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

DNA paternity analysis; Human disturbance; Male infanticide; Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii); Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

DNA;

HORSE; INFANTICIDE; MALE BEHAVIOR; PATERNITY; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORSE; HYPOTHESIS; INFANTICIDE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; ZOO ANIMAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DNA; FEMALE; HORSES; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX FACTORS;

EQUUS FERUS; EQUUS PRZEWALSKII; MAMMALIA;

EID: 43149117895     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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