Social preferences of juvenile lemon sharks, Negaprion brevirostris

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 543-548

  Guttridge, T L ^a,b   Gruber, S H ^b   Gledhill, K S ^b   Croft, D P ^c   Sims, D W ^d,e   Krause, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Bimini Biological Field Station ^*  (Bahamas)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

elasmobranch; group dynamics; lemon shark; Negaprion brevirostris; predator; schooling; shoaling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; JUVENILE; LEARNING; PREDATOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SHARK; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SYMPATRY;

CHONDRICHTHYES; CITRUS LIMON; GINGLYMOSTOMA CIRRATUM; GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE; NEGAPRION; NEGAPRION BREVIROSTRIS;

EID: 68549094214     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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