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... Rare X Some species area Killing of competitors X ? X X Rare including own species Intragroup tolerance X X X X a Sources : Kruuk [ 397 ] , Mech [ 505 ] , Schaller [ 635 ] , and van Lawick and van Lawick - Goodall [ 733 ] . Pronounced ...
... Rare X Some species area Killing of competitors X ? X X Rare including own species Intragroup tolerance X X X X a Sources : Kruuk [ 397 ] , Mech [ 505 ] , Schaller [ 635 ] , and van Lawick and van Lawick - Goodall [ 733 ] . Pronounced ...
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... rare and scattered distribution , it would be difficult , risky , and energetically expensive for males to search for a series of receptive females . Instead , when a male finds a female , he stays with her , repels any other males if ...
... rare and scattered distribution , it would be difficult , risky , and energetically expensive for males to search for a series of receptive females . Instead , when a male finds a female , he stays with her , repels any other males if ...
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... rare or unusual circumstances ( Figure 10 ) . In Joel Welty's The Life of Birds , there is a photograph of a cardinal feeding a beakful of insects to a goldfish that has lunged out of the water , mouth gaping , to receive the food [ 769 ] ...
... rare or unusual circumstances ( Figure 10 ) . In Joel Welty's The Life of Birds , there is a photograph of a cardinal feeding a beakful of insects to a goldfish that has lunged out of the water , mouth gaping , to receive the food [ 769 ] ...
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NATURAL SELECTION | 5 |
Alternative Hypotheses | 11 |
Experimental Tests of Evolutionary Predictions | 17 |
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