Learning about the opponent during aggressive encounters in paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis L.): When it takes place?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97-105

  Miklósi, Ádám ^a   Haller, József ^b   Csányi, Vilmos ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aggression; Memory; Paradise fish; Post contest harassment

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIGHTING; FISH; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS;

MACROPODUS OPERCULARIS;

AGGRESSION; HARASSMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; PARADISE FISH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0030609689     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00755-3     Document Type: Article

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