Animal Sociality: Bat Colonies Are Founded by Relatives

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Kerth, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BAT; FEMALE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 50849103363     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.038     Document Type: Short Survey

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