How does the ecological foraging behavior of desert kangaroo rats (Dipodomys deserti) relate to their behavior on radial mazes?

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 342-354

  Timberlake, William ^a   Hoffman, Cynthia M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DESERT; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FORAGING; KANGAROO RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; DIPODOMYS; DIPODOMYS DESERTI; MACROPUS SP.; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036868285     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195959     Document Type: Article

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