A laboratory study of social behaviour of pairs of females during the reproductive season in Spermophilus spilosoma and Spermophilus mexicanus

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 125-136

  Mandier, Valérie ^a   Gouat, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Cohabitation; Female social behaviour; Spermophilus mexicanus; Spermophilus spilosoma

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COITUS; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES; SQUIRREL;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS MEXICANUS; SPERMOPHILUS SPILOSOMA; SPILOSOMA;

EID: 0030248451     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00078-X     Document Type: Article

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