Use of plasticine replica snakes to elicit antipredator behavior in the California ground squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi)

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 263-267

  Mitrovich, Milan J ^a,b   Cotroneo, Rachel A ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nature Reserve of Orange County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCIURIDAE; SERPENTES; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS BEECHEYI;

EID: 33745784161     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2006)51[263:UOPRST]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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