Behavioural mechanisms underlying the spatial dispersion of commensal Mus domesticus and grassland Mus spretus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 511-524

  Gray, Samantha J ^b   Hurst, Jane L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUS DOMESTICUS; MUS SPRETUS;

AGGRESSIVE EXCLUSION; ALGERIAN MOUSE; HOUSE MOUSE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; SPATIAL DISPERSION;

EID: 0030770119     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0301     Document Type: Article

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