Strategie and tactical fighting decisions in cichlid fishes with divergent social systems

Behaviour

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-71

  Hick, Kristina ^a   Reddon, Adam R ^a   O'Connor, Constance M ^a   Balshine, Sigal ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; Dear enemy; Dominance; Familiarity; Lake tanganyika; Resource contests; Sociality; Submission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905000455     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X00003122     Document Type: Article

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