Conditional association between melanism and personality in Israeli Barn Owls
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Conditional association between melanism and personality in Israeli Barn Owls Ori Peleg, Motti Charter, Yossi Leshem, Ido Izhaki & Alexandre Roulin a Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv 69978, Israel b Department of Evolution and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel c Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland Published online: 25 Sep 2014.
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