Metabolic consequences of agonistic behaviour: Crab fights in declining oxygen tensions

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 353-363

  Sneddon, Lynne U ^a,b   Taylor, Alan C ^a   Huntingford, Felicity A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; FIGHTING; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

CARCINUS MAENAS;

EID: 0033082360     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0982     Document Type: Article

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