Alliances in winter flocks of willow tit
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Jan Ekman
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Article
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1990
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Springer
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English
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The value of being dominant in winter flocks of willow tits may not only be a matter of personal survival for males, although their survival probability was highest among flock members. Winter flocks of willow tits contain male-female subunits, and the dominant pair may be viewed as an alliance base