The costs of male parental care and its evolution in a neotropical frog
โ Scribed by Daniel S. Townsend
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 979 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5443
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