Individually distinctive odours represent individual conspecifics in rats

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 935-944

  Gheusi, Gilles ^a   Goodall, Glyn ^b   Dantzer, Robert ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION; OLFACTION; RAT;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0031128695     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0314     Document Type: Article

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