Learned food aversion with and without an odour cue for protecting untreated baits from wild mammal foraging

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 410-428

  Baker, Sandra E ^a   Johnson, Paul J ^a   Slater, David ^b   Watkins, Richard W ^c   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b English Nature   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Badger; Food aversion; Fox; Human wildlife conflict resolution; Odour cue; Ziram

Indexed keywords

BAIT; CHEMICAL CUE; FOOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; ODOR; TASTE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; MELES MELES; SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM; TAXIDIINAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 33845625496     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.05.039     Document Type: Article

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