Vigilance and foraging behaviour in a social desert rodent, microcavia australis (rodentia caviidae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 245-256

  Taraborelli, Paula ^a  

^a LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Effect of group; Foraging; Microcavia australis; Predation risk; Social rodent; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; FOOD STORAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PROBABILITY; RODENT; VIGILANCE;

CAVIIDAE; MICROCAVIA AUSTRALIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 56549115886     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2008.9522524     Document Type: Article

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