The role of the visual train ornament in the courtship of peafowl, Pavo cristatus
The peacock (Pavo cristatus) has long been considered the quintessential example of a sexually selected animal, and in the last two decades, peafowl have provided widely-cited evidence for female mate choice as well as the genetic benefits of mate preferences for ornamented males. However, previous...
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| Language: | en en |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1423 |