Fighting behaviour as a correlate of male mating success in black grouse Tetrao tetrix

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1577-1586

  Hämäläinen, Anni ^a,b   Alatalo, Rauno V ^a   Lebigre, Christophe ^a,c   Siitari, Heli ^a   Soulsbury, Carl D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antagonistic; Dominance; Fighting; Fitness; Mate choice

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COPULATION; DOMINANCE; FIGHTING; FITNESS; GAMEBIRD; LEK; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; MORPHOLOGY;

TETRAO TETRIX;

EID: 84869189843     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1411-7     Document Type: Article

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