Asymmetrical cache pilfering between yellow pine chipmunks and golden-mantled ground squirrels

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 555-561

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

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

competition; food hoarding; optimal foraging; pilfering; scatter hoarding; species coexistence

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CACHING; COEXISTENCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL;

ANIMALIA; PINUS JEFFREYI; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS; TAMIAS AMOENUS;

EID: 68349150878     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.030     Document Type: Article

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