Ferocious Fighting between Male Grasshoppers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Umbers, Kate D L ^a,c   Tatarnic, Nikolai J ^b,c   Holwell, Gregory I ^d   Herberstein, Marie E ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BITE; BODY SIZE; CAELIFERA; CHAMELEON GRASSHOPPER; FEMALE; FIGHTING; INJURY; KOSCIUSCOLA TRISTIS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SEX ROLE;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; MALE; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; PLACIDA;

EID: 84869108756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049600     Document Type: Article

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