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Helper Response to Experimentally Manipulated Predation Risk in the Cooperatively Breeding Cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher

BACKGROUND: We manipulated predation risk in a field experiment with the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher by releasing no predator, a medium- or a large-sized fish predator inside underwater cages enclosing two to three natural groups. We assessed whether helpers changed their h...

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Autores principales: Heg, Dik, Taborsky, Michael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20520816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010784