Sibling recognition in the beaver: A field test for phenotype matching

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 493-502

  Sun, Lixing ^a   Müller Schwarze, Dietland ^b  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAVER; KIN RECOGNITION; PHENOTYPE MATCHING; SIBLING RECOGNITION;

CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE; UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 0031239223     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0440     Document Type: Article

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