Will free-ranging predators stop depredating untreated eggs in pulegone-scented gull nests after exposure to pulegone-injected eggs?

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 135-145

  Conover, Michael R ^a   Lyons, Kimberly S ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aversive conditioning; Conditioned food aversions; Nest predation; Pulegone; Wildlife damage management

Indexed keywords

ANTIFEEDANT; CONDITIONING; MAMMAL; NEST PREDATION; PLANT EXTRACT; SEABIRD; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AVES; LAMIACEAE; LARUS CALIFORNICUS; LARUS DELAWARENSIS; MAMMALIA; MENTHA;

EID: 23744510723     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2004.11.013     Document Type: Article

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