Multimale breeding aggregations by “many-friends” snakes: courtship behaviours by Malagasy Pseudoxyrhophiine snakes, Dromicodryas bernieri and D. quadrilineatus, and their sexual size dimorphism
When several male snakes dispute over one female in the breeding season, two major male-male rivalries are known to occur: male-male combat and multimale breeding aggregation. The roles of male body size and the degree of sexual size dimorphism are different between these rivalries. We report field...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2022-11-01
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| Series: | Herpetozoa |
| Online Access: | https://herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/91579/download/pdf/ |