Changing tactics: Dominance, territoriality, and the responses of "primary" males to competition from conditional breeders in the variegated pupfish (Cyprinodon variegatus)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-130

  Leiser, John K ^a,b   Itzkowitz, Murray ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rosemont College   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral flexibility; Conditional tactic; Cyprinodon; Dominance; Primary male; Pupfish; Territory

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONDITIONALITY; DOMINANCE; FISH; MATING BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; BREEDING; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODON VARIEGATUS; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DENSITY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FISH; LABORATORY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; SEX RATIO; SPAWNING; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BREEDING; FEMALE; KILLIFISHES; MALE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TERRITORIALITY;

CYPRINODON; CYPRINODON VARIEGATUS;

EID: 1942444657     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2004.01.008     Document Type: Article

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