Daytime activities and social interactions in a colony of the fat sand rats, Psammomys obesus, at the Hegev Highlands, Israel

Mammalia

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-28

  Gromov, V S ^a  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Psammomys; Scent marking; Social behaviour; Space use; Time budget

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; HOME RANGE; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ISRAEL;

ANABASIS; ANABASIS ARTICULATA; ANIMALIA; ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX HALIMUS; GERBILLINAE; GERBILLUS CAMPESTRIS; MERIONES TAMARISCINUS; PSAMMOMYS; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; RODENTIA; TAMARICACEAE;

EID: 0034925410     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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