Spacing behaviour and its implications for the mating system of a precocial small mammal: An almost asocial cavy Cavia magna?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 225-238

  Kraus, Cornelia ^a   Künkele, Joachim ^a   Trillmich, Fritz ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOME RANGE; MAMMAL; MATING BEHAVIOR; SPACE USE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA MAGNA; CAVIIDAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0042570813     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2192     Document Type: Article

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