Costs and benefits of interspecific dominance rank: Are subordinates better at finding novel food locations?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1375-1381

  Tiebout III, Harry M ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC DOMINANCE; STEELY-VENTED HUMMINGBIRD;

AMAZILIA SAUCEROTTEI; CHLOROSTILBON CANIVETII;

EID: 0030153421     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0140     Document Type: Article

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