Avoidance of scent-marked areas depends on the intruder's body size

Behaviour

Volumn 133, Issue 7-8, 1996, Pages 491-502

  Gosling, L M ^a,b   Atkinson, N W ^a,c   Collins, S A ^a,d   Roberts, R J ^a   Walters, R L ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; HOUSE MOUSE; ODOUR; SCENT;

MUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0030424181     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853996x00170     Document Type: Article

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