The communicatory significance of localised defecation sites in bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 368-378

  Wronski, Torsten ^a   Apio, Ann ^b   Plath, Martin ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antelopes; Information centres; Inter sexual communication; Territoriality; Uganda

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; FECAL PELLET; FECES; HOME RANGE; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; MAPPING METHOD; PARASITE INTENSITY; RUMINANT; TERRITORIALITY;

MAMMALIA; TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS;

EID: 33745228450     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0174-4     Document Type: Article

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