Aggressive transition between alternative male social tactics in a long-lived Australian dragon (Physignathus lesueurii) living at high density

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Baird, Troy A ^a   Baird, Teresa D ^a   Shine, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ALTERNATIVE MALE SOCIAL TACTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIZARD; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PHYSIGNATHUS LESUEURII; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

PHYSIGNATHUS LESUEURII; SAURURUS CERNUUS;

EID: 84864674577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041819     Document Type: Article

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