Female weight predicts the timing of forced copulation attempts in stitchbirds, Notiomystis cincta

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 637-644

  Low, Matthew ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; FERTILITY; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE GUARDING; PASSERINE; WEIGHT;

AVES; NOTIOMYSTIS CINCTA;

EID: 7944233929     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.01.006     Document Type: Article

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