Personality counts: the effect of boldness on shoal choice in three-spined sticklebacks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1501-1505

  Harcourt, Jennifer L ^a   Sweetman, Gemma ^a   Johnstone, Rufus A ^a   Manica, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

boldness; foraging; Gasterosteus aculeatus personality; shoal choice; three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SITE SELECTION; TELEOST;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 67349154875     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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