Social dispersal but with philopatry reveals incest avoidance in a polygynous ungulate

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1085-1093

  Linklater, Wayne L ^a,b   Cameron, Elissa Z ^a,c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

competition; emigration; Equidae; Equus caballus; horse; immigration

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BODY CONDITION; BREEDING POPULATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; EMIGRATION; HOME RANGE; HORSE; IMMIGRATION; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; KINSHIP; PHILOPATRY; SEXUAL MATURITY;

AUSTRALASIA; KAIMANAWA MOUNTAINS; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 64549104592     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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