Who dares, learns: Chemical inspection behaviour and acquired predator recognition in a characin fish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 475-481

  Brown, Grant E ^a,b   Godin, Jean Guy J ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; FISH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; ARCHOCENTRUS NIGROFASCIATUS; CICHLASOMA; CICHLASOMA NIGROFASCIATUM; CICHLIDAE; HEMIGRAMMUS ERYTHROZONUS; OSTARIOPHYSAN; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERI; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII;

EID: 0033083931     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1017     Document Type: Article

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