Caching decisions by grey squirrels: A test of the handling time and perishability hypotheses

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 941-948

  Hadj Chikh, Leila Z ^a   Steele, Michael A ^b   Smallwood, Peter D ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROLINENSIS; ERYTHROBALANUS; QUERCUS; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; FAGACEAE;

ACORN; CACHING; FOOD HOARDING; GREY SQUIRREL; HANDLING TIME; PERISHABILITY;

EID: 0030274207     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0242     Document Type: Article

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