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Behavior is the change in activity of an organism in response to a stimulus. Undernutrition, polygynous context and family structure. Understanding how this can occur requires consideration of both the proximate determinants of fertility and the ultimate effects of polygyny as a female reproductive strategy. How polygynous female northern harriers circus cyaneus choos e their mates and why they are deceived robert simmons female choice has become a focus of attentio n bateson 1983 because it can give an insight into why particula r mating systems occur among particula r species. Download book pdf size and scaling in primate biology pp 5160 cite as.
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