Social learning of antipredator behaviour in a marsupial

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 485-492

  Griffin, Andrea S ^a,c   Evans, Christopher S ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Coop Res Ctr Conserv/Mgmt M ^*  (Australia)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; LEARNING; MARSUPIAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CANIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; CATUS; EUTHERIA; FELIS CATUS; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0043287690     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2207     Document Type: Article

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