Vocal communication in the striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius, in dyadic encounters and intraspecific cage groups

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 42, Issue 5-8, 2008, Pages 289-299

  Simeonovska Nikolova, Daniela M ^a   Bogoev, Valentin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Agonistic interactions; Apodemus agrarius; Spectrogram; Vocal signals

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; RODENT; SIGNALING; VOCALIZATION;

APODEMUS AGRARIUS;

EID: 46249125885     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930701835134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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