Seasonal changes in urinary odors and in responses to them by blind subterranean mole rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 963-968

  Heth, Giora ^a   Nevo, Eviatar ^a   Todrank, Josephine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chemical communication; Chemosensory behavior; Mole rat; Odor seasonality; Spalax ehrenbergi; Subterranean mammals; Urinary odors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030249018     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00077-7     Document Type: Article

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