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Calling underwater is a costly signal: size-related differences in the call rates of Antarctic leopard seals

It is proposed that where sexually selected vocal communication is an honest signal, the call production rate is predicted to change throughout the breeding season. Male leopard seals call underwater for many hours each day over their three- to four-month breeding season, and it is hypothesized that...

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Autor principal: Rogers, Tracey L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5804190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29492003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zox028