Safety in numbers? Shoaling behaviour of the Amazonian red-bellied piranha

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 155-157

  Queiroz, Helder ^a   Magurran, Anne E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL MAMIRAUÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cover seeking; Hyperventilation; Risk dilution; Schooling; Selfish herd

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR CONTROL; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; FISH; FOREST; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHARACIFORMES; PYGOCENTRUS NATTERERI;

EID: 25444521325     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0267     Document Type: Article

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