The Use of Court Objects by Lawes' Parotia
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 90 (3) , 538-545
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1368341
Abstract
Males of Lawes' Parotia (Parotia lawesii), a lek-breeding bird of paradise, collected objects at their terrestrial display courts. These included shed snake...This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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