Alternative reproductive tactics in nonprimate male mammals

Alternative Reproductive Tactics: An Integrative Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 356-372

  Wolff, Jerry O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511542602.015     Document Type: Chapter

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