Learning and Mate Choice

Fish Cognition and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 70-95

  Witte, Klaudia ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eavesdropping; Fish cognition; Mate choice; Sexual imprinting; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948174765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996058.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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