Social interaction is necessary for discrimination between and memory for odours of close relatives in golden hamsters

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 771-782

  Todrank, Josephine ^a   Heth, Giora ^b   Johnston, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; OLFACTORY CUE; RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032825797     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00455.x     Document Type: Article

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