What do European badgers (Meles meles) know about the spatial organisation of neighbouring groups?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-90

  Bodin, Carole ^a,b   Benhamou, Simon ^a   Poulle, Marie Lazarine ^b  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b 2C2A CERFE ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive mapping; European badger; Home range; Homing; Neighbourhood

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HOME RANGE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MUSTELID; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMAL; MELES MELES; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PILOT STUDY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MUSTELIDAE; ORIENTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MELES MELES; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 32344440996     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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