Flavor avoidance learning and its implications in reducing strychnine baiting hazards to nontarget animals

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 585-589

  El Hani, Abderrahim ^a,b   Mason, J Russell ^a   Nolte, Dale L ^c   Schmidt, Robert H ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ministry of Agriculture (MAMVA)   (Morocco)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Baiting; Bitter; Chipmunk; Flavor; Gopher; Strychnine; Thomomys

Indexed keywords

DENATONIUM BENZOATE; QUININE; STRYCHNINE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLAVOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL;

EID: 0032123214     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00076-6     Document Type: Article

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