Response of coyotes to avian distress calls: Testing the startle-predator and predator-attraction hypotheses

Behaviour

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 935-949

  Wise, Kristi K ^a,b   Conover, Michael R ^a   Knowlton, Frederick F ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BURNS AND MCDONNELL   (United States)

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EID: 0040320128     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853999501658     Document Type: Article

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