Home ranges and satellite tactics of male green swordtails (Xiphophorus helleri) in nature

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-123

  Franck, Dierk ^a   Klamroth, Brigitte ^a   Taebel Hellwig, Angelika ^a   Schartl, Manfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dominance relationships; Home ranges; Poeciliidae; Satellites; Swordtails; Xiphophorus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

XIPHOPHORUS HELLERI;

DOMINANCE; GREEN SWORDTAIL; HOME RANGE;

MEXICO, VERACRUZ, LAKE CATEMACO; MEXICO, VERACRUZ, RIO ATOYAC;

EID: 0031597270     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00003-5     Document Type: Article

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