Territorial aggression can be sensitive to the status of heterospecific intruders

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 598-601

  Lehtonen, Topi K ^a,b   McCrary, Jeffrey K ^c   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FUNDECI/GAIA   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Aggression; Breeding colouration; Dear enemy; Midas cichlid complex; Species interactions; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CICHLID; CONSPECIFIC; HABITAT SELECTION; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CICHLID; HABITAT SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CICHLIDS; FEMALE; MALE; NICARAGUA; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

AMPHILOPHUS; AMPHILOPHUS CITRINELLUS; AMPHILOPHUS ZALIOSUS; ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 77952886349     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.02.021     Document Type: Article

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