Doing what everybody does? A procedure for investigating behavioural synchronization

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 255-262

  Engel, Jürgen ^a,c   Lamprecht, Jürg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031582074     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0359     Document Type: Article

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