Badge, Body and Testes Size in House Sparrows Passer domesticus
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Ornis Scandinavica
- Vol. 19 (1) , 72-73
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3676532
Abstract
Breeding season testes size of House Sparrows Passer domesticus was significantly positively correlated with badge size, which is a signal of dominance status, and negatively correlated with date.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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