Individual recognition in a cooperatively breeding cichlid: Evidence from video playback experiments

Behaviour

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 369-386

  Balshine Earn, Sigal ^a,b   Lotem, Arnon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b KLIVV   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Cooperative breeding; Individual recognition; Playback; Video

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032397220     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853998793066221     Document Type: Article

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