The early social environment affects social competence in a cooperative breeder

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1067-1074

  Taborsky, Barbara ^a,b   Arnold, Cornelia ^a   Junker, Julian ^a,c   Tschopp, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aggressive behaviour; Cichlid; Cooperative breeder; Development; Early environment; Neolamprologus pulcher; Social competence; Social experience; Social skill; Submissive behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GENE EXPRESSION; JUVENILE; PERCIFORM; REARING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER;

EID: 84858753774     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.037     Document Type: Article

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