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The effects of scaling on age, sex and size relationships in Red-legged Partridges

Wild birds differ in size according to their age and sex, adult birds being larger than juveniles. In the galliforms, males are larger than females, in contrast to some groups, such as the raptors, in which the females are larger. Size generally influences the rank hierarchy within a group of birds,...

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Autores principales: Nadal, Jesús, Ponz, Carolina, Margalida, Antoni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29391508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20576-x