Grooming in desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) and the ghost of parasites past

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 364-371

  Mooring, Michael S ^a   Hart, Benjamin L ^b   Fitzpatrick, Thomas A ^a   Reisig, Dominic D ^a   Nishihira, Tara T ^a   Fraser, Ian C ^a   Benjamin, Jill E ^a  

^a POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size principle; Desert bighorn; Grooming; Programmed grooming model; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ECTOPARASITE; GROOMING; PARASITE INFESTATION; SHEEP; TICK;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NORTH AMERICA;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; OVIS CANADENSIS MEXICANA; UNGULATA;

EID: 33645718781     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj039     Document Type: Article

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