The circumstances in which nest-raiding behavior was shown by male sticklebacks are described. These observations refer to natural situations rather than laboratory situations. It is hypothesized that nest raiding is normally a response to a shortage of food or material for building nests.
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R. J. Wootton (1971) studied this question.
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