Do female hyaenas choose mates based on tenure?

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7201, 2008, Pages

  Van Horn, Russell C ^a,b   Watts, Heather E ^b   Holekamp, Kay E ^b  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CARNIVORA; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 47049124529     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07122     Document Type: Note

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