Body size and agonistic experience affect dominance and mating success in male copperheads

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Animal Behaviour

• Publication date

  1997-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1006/ANBE.1996.0417PMID 9268451
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