Socially acquired information from chemical cues in the common lizard, Lacerta vivipara

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 965-974

  Aragón, Pedro ^a,b   Massot, Manuel ^b   Gasparini, Julien ^b   Clobert, Jean ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Station d'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS a Moulis   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; LIZARD; SCENT MARKING; SHELTER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 33748430781     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.11.023     Document Type: Article

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