Do house mice modify their foraging behaviour in response to predator odours and habitat?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 753-759

  Powell, Fiona ^a   Banks, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT; ODOR; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS DOMESTICUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; SCATOPHAGIDAE (FISHES); SCATOPHAGUS ARGUS;

EID: 1842526651     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.08.016     Document Type: Article

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