Escalated fighting despite predictors of conflict outcome: Solving the paradox in a South American cichlid fish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 623-634

  Maan, Martine E ^a   Groothuis, Ton G G ^a   Wittenberg, Joris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FIGHTING; FISH;

CICHLASOMA; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 0035182894     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1819     Document Type: Article

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