Intra- and interspecific variation in vigilance and foraging of two gerbillid rodents, Rhombomys opimus and Psammomys obesus: The effect of social environment

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 965-972

  Tchabovsky, Andrei V ^a   Popov, Sergei V ^b   Krasnov, Boris R ^c  

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

^b Moscow Zoo   (Russian Federation)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; RODENT; VIGILANCE;

PSAMMOMYS; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0035668266     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1833     Document Type: Article

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