Short-term effects of an acute exposure to predatory cues on the spatial working and reference memory performance in a subterranean rodent

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 685-692

  Mastrangelo, Matias E ^a   Schleich, Cristian E ^a,b   Zenuto, Roxana R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Ctenomys talarum; predation; reference memory; spatial orientation; stress; subterranean rodent; Tala's tuco tuco; working memory

Indexed keywords

BURROWING ORGANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MEMORY; PREDATION; RODENT; SPATIAL COGNITION;

ANIMALIA; CTENOMYS TALARUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 59949101788     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.11.018     Document Type: Article

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