Use of vegetation chemical signals for digging orientation in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 573-578

  Schleich, Cristian E ^a   Zenuto, Roxana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD SELECTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OLFACTION; OLFACTORY CUE; RODENT; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION;

AMBROSIA; CTENOMYIDAE; CTENOMYS TALARUM; PANICUM RACEMOSUM; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34547400051     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01352.x     Document Type: Article

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