Do yellow-pine chipmunks prefer to recover their own caches?

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 319-323

  Vander Wall, Stephen B ^a   Downs, Cynthia J ^a   Enders, Mark S ^a   Waitman, Ben A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cache pilfering; Hoarding; Tamias amoenus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; TAMIAS AMOENUS;

EID: 54149089236     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3398/1527-0904(2008)68[319:DYCPTR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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