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- Introduction
- Material and methods
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- Discussion
- This study adhered to the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour/Animal Behaviour Society guidelines for the Use of Animals in Research. All experiments complied with the current laws of Germany.We are grateful to Timo Thünken and the 'Bakker' research group for discussion. Ingolf Rick, Andrea Manica and an anonymous referee gave thoughtful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. We thank Jan Hottentot for catching the sticklebacks.
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