Offensive and defensive bite‐target topographies in attacks by lactating rats

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 47-52

  Sgoifo, Andrea ^a   Stilli, Donatella ^a   Musso, Ezio ^a   Mainardi, Danilo ^a   Parmigiani, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

bite target; male and female intruders; male infanticide; maternal attack; offense and defense; rat

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002857167     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2337(1992)18:1<47::AID-AB2480180106>3.0.CO;2-#     Document Type: Article

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