Cooperative signalling between opponents in fish fights

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1309-1315

  Hurd, Peter L ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOUR DISPLAYS; FIGHTING; SIGNALLING;

CICHLIDAE; NANNACARA ANOMALA;

EID: 0030668634     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0531     Document Type: Article

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