Food limitation increases aggression in juvenile meerkats

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 930-935

  Hodge, S J ^a,c   Thornton, A ^a   Flower, T P ^b   Clutton Brock, T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Agonism; Competition; Dominance; Food amount hypothesis; Siblicide; Sibling rivalry; Suricata suricatta

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DOMINANCE; FOOD LIMITATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; JUVENILE; SIBLICIDE; SIBLING; SMALL MAMMAL;

SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 70349471130     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp071     Document Type: Article

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