Solitary is not asocial: Effects of social contact in kangaroo rats (heteromyidae: Dipodomys heermanni)

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 317-333

  Yoerg, Sonja I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRUS CYCLE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

DIPODOMYS HEERMANNI;

EID: 0032955047     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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