Female prairie voles do not choose males based on their frequency of scent marking

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 101-108

  Mech, Stephen G ^a,d   Dunlap, Aimee S ^b   Wolff, Jerry O ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d ALBRIGHT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mate choice; Microtus; Prairie voles; Scent marking

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; RODENT; SCENT MARKING;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRAIRIE; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULATION; VOLE;

ANIMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE;

EID: 0037474563     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(02)00128-6     Document Type: Article

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