Sex, scarring, and stress: Understanding seasonal costs in a cryptic marine mammal

Conservation Physiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Burgess, Elizabeth A ^a   Brown, Janine L ^b   Lanyon, Janet M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body condition; Faecal glucocorticoid; Male aggression; Scarring; Stress; Tusk injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983527494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20511434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/conphys/cot014     Document Type: Article

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