Females are responsible for ejection of cuckoo eggs in the rufous bush robin
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Animal Behaviour
- Vol. 56 (1) , 131-136
- https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1998.0771
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