Being attractive brings advantages: The case of parrot species in captivity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Frynta, Daniel ^a   Lišková, Silvie ^a   Bültmann, Sebastian ^b   Burda, Hynek ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PARROT; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; ZOOLOGY; ADULT; ANIMAL; BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ZOO ANIMAL;

AVES; PSITTACIDAE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BEAUTY; BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARROTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958547520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012568     Document Type: Article

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