Beaver response to recurrent alien scents: Scent fence or scent match?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1529-1536

  Sun, Lixing ^a   Müller Schwarze, Dietland ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE; SCENT MARKING; SCENT-FENCE HYPOTHESIS; SCENT-MATCHING HYPOTHESIS; TERRITORIALITY;

ANSERIFORMES; CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTOR CANDENSIS; CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE;

EID: 0032104376     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0709     Document Type: Article

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