Learned magnetic compass orientation by the Siberian hamster, Phodopus sungorus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 779-786

  Deutschlander, Mark E ^a,d   Freake, Michael J ^a,e   Borland, S Christopher ^a   Phillips, John B ^a,c   Madden, Robert C ^f   Anderson, Larry E ^b   Wilson, Bary W ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

^e LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; MAGNETIC FIELD; NESTING BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; POSITIONING; RODENT;

CRICETINAE; CRYPTOMYS; MAMMALIA; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS; RODENTIA; SPALAX;

EID: 0037391218     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2111     Document Type: Article

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