The dark ventral patch: A bimodal flexible trait related to male competition in red deer

• Juan Carranza ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jcarranza@uco.es

  Affiliation Wildlife Research Unit (UiRCP), University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0368-7173

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• Eva de la Peña,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Research Unit (UiRCP), University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

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• Concha Mateos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology & Ethology, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Javier Pérez-González,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology & Ethology, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Susana Alarcos,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology & Ethology, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Jerónimo Torres-Porras,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social and Experimental Sciences Teaching, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

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• Juliana Valencia,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Experimental Sciences Teaching, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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• Cristina Sánchez-Prieto,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology & Ethology, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Leticia Castillo

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology & Ethology, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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