Mate guarding conflict, extra-pair courtship and signalling in the harlequin duck, Histrionicus histrionicus

Behaviour

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1061-1078

  Lazarus, John ^a   Inglis, Ian R ^b   Torrance, Rebecca L L F ^a,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c c/o J Lazarus ^*

Author keywords

Courtship signals; Extra pair courtship; Harlequin duck; Histrionicus histrionicus; Mate guarding; Mate guarding conflict; Mate guarding signals

Indexed keywords

EID: 9644270576     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539042360161     Document Type: Article

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