Effect of scent-marking in delaying territorial invasion in the blind mole-rat spalax ehrenbergi

Behaviour

Volumn 134, Issue 11-12, 1997, Pages 867-880

  Zuri, I ^a   Gazit, I ^a   Terkel, J ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0031510789     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853997X00197     Document Type: Article

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