Laterality in detour behaviour: Interspecific variation in poeciliid fish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1273-1281

  Bisazza, Angelo ^a   Pignatti, Riccardo ^a   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETOUR BEHAVIOUR; LATERALITY;

BRACHYRHAPHIS ROSENI; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GAMBUSIA BOLBROOKI; GAMBUSIA HOLBROOKI; GAMBUSIA NICARAGUENSIS; GIRARDINUS; GIRARDINUS FALCATUS; POECILIA RETICULATA; POECILIIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030669031     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0522     Document Type: Article

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