Rutting behaviour of territorial and nonterritorial male chamois: Is there a home advantage?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 118-124

  Corlatti, Luca ^a,b   Caroli, Martina ^c   Pietrocini, Venusta ^a   Lovari, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggressive behaviour; Alternative mating tactics; Mating behaviour; Rupicapra; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY MASS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COURTSHIP; DOMINANCE; HOME RANGE; MALE; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RUMINANT; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SURVIVAL; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COST; COURTSHIP; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; RUPICAPRA; SURVIVAL; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COURTSHIP; MALE; RUPICAPRA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TERRITORIALITY;

GRAN PARADISO NATIONAL PARK; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY];

RUPICAPRA; RUPICAPRA RUPICAPRA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84871931214     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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