Competing females and caring males. Polyandry and sex-role reversal in African black coucals, Centropus grillii

Ethology

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 807-823

  Goymann, Wolfgang ^a,b   Wittenzellner, Andrea ^b   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARENTAL CARE; POLYANDRY; ROLE REVERSAL; SEX ROLE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

AVES; CENTROPUS; CENTROPUS GRILLII; PERCIDAE;

EID: 7244250163     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.01015.x     Document Type: Article

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