Courtship and male parental care in the Mallorcan Midwife toad Alytes muletensis

Sexual selection theory predicts that the sex with the lower parental investment, usually the male, will be the more competitive and more highly adorned sex. Species in which males have a high investment In the form of parental care or nuptial gifts are instructive for testing the predictions of sex...

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Main Author: Bush, Sarah Louise
Published: University of East Anglia 1993
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359320