Aggression and vocalization behaviour of three sympatric vole species during conspecific and heterospecific same-sex encounters

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-305

  Kapusta, Joanna ^a   Sales, Gillian D ^b   Czuchnowski, Robert ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bank vole; Behaviour; Common vole; Field vole; Ultrasounds

Indexed keywords

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 34547558386     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907780425730     Document Type: Article

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