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Pinniped mating systems on land, ice and in the water: Emphasis on the Phocidae

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The Behaviour of Pinnipeds

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Dunnocks, Prunella modularis, ait small brown passerines that exhibit an extremely variable mating system. The mating system of a population of 90 breeders, studied by Nicolas Davies and collaborators in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, consists of several mating combinations (Davies, 1983, 1985; Davies and Lund-berg, 1984, 1985).

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Le Boeuf, B.J. (1991). Pinniped mating systems on land, ice and in the water: Emphasis on the Phocidae. In: Renouf, D. (eds) The Behaviour of Pinnipeds. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3100-1_2

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