Burrow sharing by colonial tuco-tucos (Ctenomys sociabilis)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 556-562

  Lacey, Eileen A ^a   Braude, Stanton H ^b   Wieczorek, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Colonies; Ctenomys; Sociality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BURROW; MAMMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARGENTINA; NEUQUEN PROVINCE;

ANIMALIA; BATHYERGIDAE; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; CTENOMYIDAE; CTENOMYS; CTENOMYS SOCIABILIS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031544244     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382907     Document Type: Review

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