How to eat a carrot? Convergence in the feeding behavior of subterranean rodents

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 325-327

  Burda, Hynek ^a   Begall, Sabine ^a   Grütjen, Oliver ^a   Scharff, Andreas ^a   Nevo, Eviatar ^b   Beiles, Avigdor ^b   Červený, Jaroslav ^c   Průcha, Karel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d Station of Ecological Education   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARROT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; RODENT;

EID: 0032817302     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050625     Document Type: Article

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