Lateralized agonistic responses and hindlimb use in toads

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 875-881

  Robins, Andrew ^a,d   Lippolis, Giuseppe ^b   Bisazza, Angelo ^b   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^c   Rogers, Lesley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; HANDEDNESS; TOAD;

BUFO BUFO; BUFO MARINUS; BUFO VIRIDIS;

EID: 0031760850     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0877     Document Type: Article

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