The response of water voles, Arvicola terrestris, to the odours of predators

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1107-1112

  Barreto, Guillermo R ^a,b   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; PREDATOR; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI; MURIDAE; MUSTELA VISON; OVIS ARIES; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033135137     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1042     Document Type: Article

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