Discrimination of mates and intruders: visual and olfactory cues for a monogamous territorial coral reef butterflyfish

Recognition of conspecifics is essential for territorial and monogamous animals in order to maintain pair bonds, mate-guard and defend territories. However, cues required for mate discrimination are essentially unknown in monogamous fishes, despite the importance of recognition behaviour that promot...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Animal behaviour 2014-06, Vol.92, p.33-43
Hauptverfasser:	Boyle, Kelly S., Tricas, Timothy C.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal cognition Animal reproduction Chaetodon multicinctus Chaetodontidae Chemosensory perception Experiments Fish Hawaii mate recognition pebbled butterflyfish territoriality
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