Time budgets and sex differences in the Eurasian beaver

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1059-1067

  Sharpe, Fiona ^a   Rosell, Frank ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TIME ALLOCATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347543869     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2274     Document Type: Article

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