Chin up: are the bright throats of male common frogs a condition-independent visual cue?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 779-786

  Sztatecsny, Marc ^a   Strondl, Christine ^a   Baierl, Andreas ^a   Ries, Cornelia ^a   Hödl, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

anura; common frog; explosive breeding; luminance contrast; Rana temporaria; sex recognition; visual signal

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BODY SIZE; FROG; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATING SUCCESS; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VISUAL CUE;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 77949489368     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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