Seed choice by rodents: Learning or inheritance?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 913-922

  Muñoz, Alberto ^a   Bonal, Raúl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acorns; Learning; Rodents; Seed predation; Weevils

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CAPTIVITY; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD PREFERENCE; HERITABILITY; LABORATORY METHOD; LEARNING; REARING; RODENT; SEED PREDATION;

ANIMALIA; CURCULIONIDAE; ILEX; MUS SPRETUS; QUERCUS ILEX; RODENTIA;

EID: 41049099216     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0515-y     Document Type: Article

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