Sex recognition by male Andrew's toad Bufo andrewsi in a subtropical montane region

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 100-103

  Liao, Wen Bo ^a,b   Lu, Xin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bufo andrewsi; Sex recognition; Visual cues

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE RECOGNITION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNALING; TOAD; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOAD; TROPICS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BODY SIZE; BUFONIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO ANDREWSI;

EID: 67650154192     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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