Vigilance as a benefit of intermittent locomotion in small mammals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 109-117

  McAdam, Andrew G ^a,b   Kramer, Donald L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCOMOTION; PAUSING; SMALL MAMMAL; VIGILANCE;

ANIMALIA; CAROLINENSIS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; TAMIAS STRIATUS; TARNIAS; TARNIAS STRIATUS; UNDETERMINED SCIURIDAE 'CHIPMUNKS';

EID: 0031980866     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0592     Document Type: Article

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