Passage order through different pathways in groups of schooling fish, and the diversified leadership hypothesis

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-8

  Levin, Luis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Aggregation dispersion; Animal sociality; Group problem solving; Inter individual variability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 0029890919     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00067-4     Document Type: Article

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