Sociality and reproductive skew in horses and zebras

Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates: Proximate and Ultimate Causes

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 196-226

  Rubenstein, Daniel I ^a   Nuñez, Cassandra M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511641954.010     Document Type: Chapter

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