Detours by the blind mole-rat follow assessment of location and physical properties of underground obstacles

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 885-891

  Kimchi, Tali ^a   Terkel, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORIENTATION; RODENT; UNDERGROUND ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; NANNOSPALAX EHRENBERGI; RODENTIA; SPALACINAE; SPALAX; SPALAX EHRENBERGI;

EID: 0344530518     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2267     Document Type: Article

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