Kairomone-guided food location in subterranean Zambian mole-rats (Cryptomys spp., Bathyergidae)

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 263-268

  Lange, Simone ^a   Neumann, Birgit ^a   Hagemeyer, Petra ^a   Burda, Hynek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptomys; Food odours; Foraging; Kairomones; Olfaction; Subterranean rodents

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; KAIROMONE; OLFACTION; RODENT;

BATHYERGIDAE; COETOMYS ANSELLI; CRYPTOMYS; DAUCUS CAROTA; HETH; RODENTIA;

EID: 27644582815     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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