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Knee-clicks and visual traits indicate fighting ability in eland antelopes: multiple messages and back-up signals

BACKGROUND: Given the costs of signalling, why do males often advertise their fighting ability to rivals using several signals rather than just one? Multiple signalling theories have developed largely in studies of sexual signals, and less is known about their applicability to intra-sexual communica...

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Autores principales: Bro-Jørgensen, Jakob, Dabelsteen, Torben
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18986518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-6-47