Slowness and acceleration: a new method to quantify the activity budget of chelonians

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 319-329

  Lagarde, F ^a   Guillon, M ^a   Dubroca, L ^a,b   Bonnet, X ^a   Ben Kaddour, K ^c   Slimani, T ^b   El mouden, E H ^b  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^c CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

accelerometer; activity budget; data logger; Testudo graeca; tortoise

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACTIVITY PATTERN; DATA; TURTLE;

TESTUDO GRAECA;

EID: 37349083496     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.010     Document Type: Note

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