Isolation Associated Aggression - A Consequence of Recovery from Defeat in a Territorial Animal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Stevenson, Paul A ^a   Rillich, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING (AREA); FEMALE; FIGHTING; GROUP DYNAMICS; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; ORGANISM COLONY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TERRITORIALITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TERRITORIALITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883627849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074965     Document Type: Article

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