Self-grooming as a sexually dimorphic communicative behaviour in meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 801-810

  Ferkin, Michael H ^a,b   Sorokin, Evan S ^b   Johnston, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; GROOMING; MEADOW VOLE; ODOUR; SELF-GROOMING;

MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS;

EID: 0029769715     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0084     Document Type: Article

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