The behaviour of licking the everted rectum in shrews (Soricidae, insectivora)

Acta Theriologica

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-120

  Hirakawa, Hirofumi ^a   Haberl, Werner ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Coprophagy; Rectum licking; Refection; Shrews; Soricidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; INSECTIVORA; SORICIDAE;

EID: 0031818818     PISSN: 00017051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4098/AT.arch.98-9     Document Type: Article

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