A comparative study on the paths of five anura species

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-199

  Sanuy, Delfi ^a   Bovet, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal movements; Anura; Chronobiology; Path analysis; Species differences; Toad

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROGS AND TOADS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO BUFO;

EID: 0030732455     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00045-4     Document Type: Article

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