Avoidance or escape? Discriminating between two hypotheses for the function of schooling in threespine sticklebacks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 187-194

  Grobis, Matthew M ^a   Pearish, Simon P ^a   Bell, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipredator behaviour; Avoidance hypothesis; Escape hypothesis; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Schooling behaviour; Threespine stickleback

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CONSPECIFIC; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PREDATION RISK; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; ESOCIDAE; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 84872344811     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.025     Document Type: Article

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