Behavioural types and ecological effects in a natural population of the cooperative cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 757-767

  Witsenburg, Fardo ^a,b,c   Schürch, Roger ^a,d   Otti, Oliver ^a,e   Heg, Dik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Cichlidae; Cooperatively breeding cichlid; Helping behaviour; Lake Tanganyika; Neolamprologus pulcher; Repeatability of behavioural traits; Territory defence

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CICHLID; CONSPECIFIC; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; DISPERSAL; EUSOCIALITY; GROUP SIZE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER;

EID: 77956614534     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.07.016     Document Type: Article

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