Chipmunks use leverage to eat oversized eggs: Support for the use of quail eggs in artificial nest studies

Auk

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 486-489

  Craig, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 0031976253     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089210     Document Type: Article

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