The key role of lamb presence in affecting flight response in Sardinian mouflon (Ovis orientalis musimon)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 408-412

  Ciuti, Simone ^a   Pipia, Anna ^a   Ghiandai, Fabio ^a   Grignolio, Stefano ^a   Apollonio, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flight behaviour; Lamb; Mouflon; Sexual segregation

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SHEEP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLIGHT DISTANCE; FLIGHT RESPONSE; GENDER; ITALY; LAMB; MALE; MAMMAL; MATING; MOUFLON; NONHUMAN; OVIS ORIENTALIS MUSIMON; PARAMETER; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHEEP; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MALE; MASS BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SEX FACTORS; SHEEP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON; UNGULATA;

EID: 39449125283     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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