Conventional displays: Evidence for socially mediated costs of threat displays in a lizard

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 326-341

  Hurd, Peter L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anolis carolinensis; Game theory; Lizard; Threat display

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344710062     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20020     Document Type: Article

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