Aggressive Behaviour in Fish: Integrating Information about Contest Costs

Fish Cognition and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 108-134

  Hsu, Yuying ^a   Earley, Ryan L ^b   Wolf, Larry L ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive behaviour in fish integrating information about contest costs; Asymmetrical winner and loser effects adaptive, engaging in contests; Behavioural decisions of shoaling fish and dynamics of competitive interactions; Contestants, information about fighting ability from contest(s) in recent past; Early ecological models of behavioural variation benefits and costs of behaviour; Experience and contest behaviour complex, among individuals over time; Experiences, influencing size, developmental history and physiological state; Fishes, good subjects for contest research for their regular fighting behaviour; Information, and how it is integrated from sources physiological mechanisms; Resource expectations, influencing motivation to attack fishes, adjusting contest behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891407650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444342536.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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