Targets and tactics: The analysis of moment-to-moment decision making in animal combat

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-129

  Pellis, Sergio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Escalation; Fighting; Game theory; Lateral attack; Muroid rodents; Supine defense

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039054207     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1997)23:2<107::aid-ab3>3.0.co;2-k     Document Type: Article

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