Forced Copulations and Intra‐specific Parasitism: Two Costs of Social Living in the White‐fronted Bee‐eater

Ethology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 2-29

  Emlen, Stephen T ^a,b   Wrege, Peter H ^a,b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

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EID: 85005512043     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1986.tb00566.x     Document Type: Article

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