Pseudoectoparasites: a new tool for exploring the relationship between host behaviour and ectoparasites

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1351-1356

  Sarasa, Mathieu ^a,b   Serrano, Emmanuel ^a,c   Gonzalez, Georges ^b   Granados, José Enrique ^d   Soriguer, Ramón C ^e   Pérez, Jesús M ^a   Joachim, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Espacio Natural Sierra Nevada   (Spain)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capra pyrenaica; contact; experimentation; feeding; host behaviour; Iberian ibex; method; parasitism; ungulate

Indexed keywords

ECTOPARASITE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GOAT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITISM;

CAPRA IBEX; CAPRA PYRENAICA; UNGULATA;

EID: 64549152443     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.005     Document Type: Note

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