Foraging innovation is inversely related to competitive ability in male but not in female guppies

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 270-274

  Laland, Kevin N ^a   Reader, Simon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal proto culture; Foraging; Guppies; Innovation; Poecilia reticulata; Scramble competition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FISH; FORAGING EFFICIENCY;

ACTINOPTERYGII; ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0033047324     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.3.270     Document Type: Article

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