Fight club: A unique weapon in the wing of the solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria (Aves: Columbidae), an extinct flightless bird from Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-44

  Hume, Julian P ^a   Steel, Lorna ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird behaviour; Intraspecific combat; Pezophaps solitaria; Raphus cucullatus; Sexual dimorphism; Territory

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FIGHTING; HISTOLOGY; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TAXONOMY;

MASCARENE ISLANDS; MAURITIUS;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBIDAE; COLUMBIFORMES; PALAEOGNATHAE; PEZOPHAPS SOLITARIA; RAPHUS CUCULLATUS;

EID: 84881609037     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12087     Document Type: Article

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