Homing by path integration in a new environment

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 185-194

  Siegrist, Claire ^a   Etienne, Ariane S ^a,b   Boulens, Valerie ^a   Maurer, Roland ^a   Rowe, Tiffany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; ARENA; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 0037263616     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.2036     Document Type: Article

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