Use of mammal manure by nesting burrowing owls: a test of four functional hypotheses

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-73

  Smith, Matthew D ^a   Conway, Courtney J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Athene cunicularia; burrowing owl; conspecific signalling; foraging tactics; manure scattering; olfactory camouflage; predator avoidance; prey attraction

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ATTRACTANT; CONCEALMENT BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; MANURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATHENE; ATHENE CUNICULARIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 33845763375     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.05.012     Document Type: Article

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