Switching assessment strategy during a contest: fighting in killifish Kryptolebias marmoratus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1641-1649

  Hsu, Yuying ^a   Lee, Shih Pin ^a   Chen, Meng Hsin ^a   Yang, Shi Yi ^a   Cheng, Kuang Chou ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

animal contests; decision making; fighting ability; killifish; Kryptolebias marmoratus; mutual assessment; self assessment

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; BODY SIZE; CYPRINID; DECISION MAKING; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FIGHTING; RESEARCH WORK;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; CYPRINODONTOIDEI; KRYPTOLEBIAS MARMORATUS;

EID: 42049091211     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.10.017     Document Type: Article

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