Space use and foraging movements in the American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 89-102

  Benhamou, Simon ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Caching; Foraging; Home range; Movement; Red squirrel; Territory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HABIT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SQUIRREL;

ANIMALIA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 0030249079     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00073-9     Document Type: Article

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