Social organization in the aboriginal house mouse, M us spretus Lataste: Behavioural mechanisms underlying the spatial dispersion of competitors

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 327-344

  Hurst, Jane L ^a   Hall, Susan ^a   Roberts, Rachel ^a   Christian, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSSION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOUR; DOMINANCE;

MUS SPRETUS;

EID: 0029667662     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0032     Document Type: Article

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