Rats Benefit from Winner and Loser Effects

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 949-960

  Lehner, Stephan R ^a   Rutte, Claudia ^a   Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIGHTING; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ULTRASONICS; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 80053923775     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01962.x     Document Type: Article

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