Drawn into the vortex: The facing-past encounter and combat in lekking male greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)

Behaviour

Volumn 150, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1567-1599

  Krakauer, Alan H ^b   Pellis, Vivien C ^a   Bell, Heather C ^a   Blundell, Melissa A ^b   Pellis, Sergio M ^a   Patricelli, Gail L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attack; defense; fight; game theory; high speed video; index signal; movement analysis; territoriality; threat signal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893075809     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003110     Document Type: Article

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