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, Peter Post, Jan Olsson, Dick Himmelmann, Natural Selection and Sexual Dimorphism: Sex-Biased Sparrowhawk Predation Favours Crypsis in Female Chaffinches, Oikos, Vol. 80, No. 3 (Dec., 1997), pp. 540-548
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