Sexually dimorphic aspects of spontaneous activity in meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus): Effects of exposure to fox odor

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1126-1132

  Perrot Sinal, Tara S ^a   Heale, V Robert ^a   Ossenkopp, Klaus Peter ^a   Kavaliers, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREDATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0029992568     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.1126     Document Type: Article

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