Head raising during foraging and pausing during intermittent locomotion as components of antipredator vigilance in chipmunks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 789-797

  Trouilloud, Wiline ^a   Delisle, Aurélie ^a   Kramer, Donald L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; LOCOMOTION;

ACCIPITRINAE; ANIMALIA; HELIANTHUS; TAMIAS; TAMIAS STRIATUS; UNDETERMINED SCIURIDAE 'CHIPMUNKS';

EID: 1842526612     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.04.013     Document Type: Article

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