Familiarity in schooling fish: How long does it take to acquire?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 945-949

  Griffiths, Siân W ^a   Magurran, Anne E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILIARITY; GUPPY; SCHOOLING; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOUR;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0031128679     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0315     Document Type: Article

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