Self-Serving punishment of a common enemy creates a public good in reef fishes

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2032-2035

  Bshary, Andrea ^a   Bshary, Redouan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BASS; CORAL REEF; GAME; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BASS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORAL REEFS; GAME THEORY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANTHIAS; ANTHOZOA; BLENNIOIDEI; PISCES;

EID: 78649319213     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.027     Document Type: Article

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