Rodents in open space adjust their behavioral response to the different risk levels during barn-owl attack

BMC Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Edut, Shahaf ^a   Eilam, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOMYS; ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; MICROTUS; MICROTUS SOCIALIS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARVICOLINAE; LOCOMOTION; MURIDAE; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; VIDEORECORDING; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LOCOMOTION; MURIDAE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRIGIFORMES; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 1642351996     PISSN: 14726785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-3-10     Document Type: Article

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