Helper response to experimentally manipulated predation risk in the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Heg, Dik ^a   Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; SAND; TERRITORIALITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CICHLID; COOPERATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

CICHLIDAE; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CICHLIDS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HELPING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77956276372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010784     Document Type: Article

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