How interacting multiple male sexual signals influence female choice in the great bowerbird

Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-46

  Okida, Tomoki ^a   Katsuno, Yoko ^a   Eguchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Noske, Richard A ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bower; Courtship display; Female choice; Great Bowerbird Chlamydera nuchalis; Multiple sexual signals

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDERA NUCHALIS;

EID: 79952827738     PISSN: 13485032     EISSN: 18820999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3312/jyio.42.35     Document Type: Article

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