Nonrandom Mating in Feral Pigeons
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 91 (1) , 23-29
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1368144
Abstract
Feral pigeons (Columba livia) showed two sorts of nonrandom mating: size-based assortative mating and plumage-based disassortative mating. Size-based mating was...This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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