The organization of play fighting in the grasshopper mouse (Onychomys leucogaster): Mixing predatory and sociosexual targets and tactics

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 319-334

  Pellis, Sergio M ^a   Pasztor, Tamara J ^a   Pellis, Vivien C ^a   Dewsbury, Donald A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Allogrooming; Attack; Counterattack; Defense; Play fighting; Tactics; Targets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040516108     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2337(2000)26:4<319::aid-ab4>3.0.co;2-i     Document Type: Article

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