Early birds are sexy: male age, dawn song and extrapair paternity in blue tits, Cyanistes (formerly Parus) caeruleus

2006/06/23 by Angelika Poesel, Hansjoerg P. Kunc, Katharina Foerster +2 · 29 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Psychology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Biology #Canto #Cyanistes #Demography #Mate choice #Mating #Parus #Plant and animal studies #Psychology #Sexual selection #Trait #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.10.022

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