Deciding to win: Interactive effects of residency, resources and 'boldness' on contest outcome in white-footed mice

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 921-927

  Fuxjager, Matthew J ^a   Montgomery, Jon L ^a   Becker, Elizabeth A ^a   Marler, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Bold shy; Context dependent; Decision making; Mice; Peromyscus leucopus; Social behaviour; Social status; Territoriality; Winning behaviour

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FIGHTING; FITNESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RODENT; TERRITORIALITY; URINE;

MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 77957785418     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.018     Document Type: Article

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