Locomotion and escape modes in rodents of the Monte Desert (Argentina)

Ethology

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 475-485

  Taraborelli, Paula ^a   Corbalán, Valeria ^a   Giannoni, Stella ^a  

^a LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MICROHABITAT; PREDATION RISK; RODENT;

ARGENTINA;

AKODON; AKODON MOLINAE; ANIMALIA; ELIGMODONTIA TYPUS; GRAOMYS; GRAOMYS GRISEOFLAVUS; RAPTORES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0038307670     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2003.00884.x     Document Type: Article

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