Why do yellow-bellied marmots call?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1053-1055

  Blumstein, D T ^a   Armitage, K B ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0031757033     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0875     Document Type: Article

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