Authors
  • Kempenaers, Bart
  • Peer, Katharine
  • Vermierssen, Etienne
  • Robertson, Raleigh J.
Universities

Summary

We tested the compensation hypothesis in the tree swallow. We found directional asymmetry in testes shape, but not in size (mass or volume).

Methodology

Birds caught with mist nets or shot or trapped in boxes, and killed by thoracic compression and cervical dislocation

Location