The maintenance of stable dominance hierarchies and the pattern of aggression: Support for the suppression hypothesis

Ethology

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 737-744

  Forkman, B ^a,b   Haskell, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DOMINANCE; GAMEBIRD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 4544314189     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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