EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Birds of a feather lek together

Paul W. Sherman ()
Additional contact information
Paul W. Sherman: Cornell University

Nature, 1999, vol. 401, issue 6749, 119-120

Abstract: A lek looks like a winner-takes-all competition between males to attract females. But appearances could be deceptive, and the males might be a family group cooperating to their mutual evolutionary advantage.

Date: 1999
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/43574 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:401:y:1999:i:6749:d:10.1038_43574

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/43574

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-19
Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:401:y:1999:i:6749:d:10.1038_43574