Natal philopatry, communal nesting, and kinship in fox squirrels and gray squirrels

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1006-1016

  Koprowski, John L ^a  

^a WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

recruitment; relatedness; Sciurus carolinensis; Sciurus niger; sociality

Indexed keywords

CANIDAE; CAROLINENSIS; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS NIGER;

EID: 0030449838     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382781     Document Type: Article

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