Proximate costs of fighting in male cichlid fish: The role of injuries and energy metabolism

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 875-882

  Neat, Francis C ^a   Taylor, Alan C ^a   Huntingford, Felicity A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGETIC COST; FIGHTING; FISH; INJURY; METABOLISM;

TILAPIA ZILLII;

EID: 0032055929     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0668     Document Type: Article

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