A comparative analysis of huddling in infant Norway rats and Syrian golden hamsters: Does endothermy modulate behavior?

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 585-593

  Sokoloff, Greta ^a   Blumberg, Mark S ^b   Adams, Megan M ^b  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; RAT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0033914169     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.3.585     Document Type: Article

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