Causation of the ontogenetic development of stereotypic digging in gerbils

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 461-470

  Weidenmayer, Christoph ^a  

^a Box 40 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; DIGGING; MONGOLIAN GERBIL; ONTOGENY; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOUR;

MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 0031082128     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0296     Document Type: Article

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