Why fight? Socially dominant jackdaws, Corvus monedula, have low fitness

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 777-783

  Verhulst, Simon ^a,b   Salomons, H Martijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b The Netherlands ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; FITNESS; MATE GUARDING; PATERNAL CARE; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL STATUS;

CORVUS; CORVUS MONEDULA;

EID: 5344275904     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.12.020     Document Type: Article

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