Foraging innovation in the guppy

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 331-340

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INNOVATION;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0033082297     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0967     Document Type: Article

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