A test of the multipredator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 873-878

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a   Ferando, Eleonora ^a,b   Stankowich, Theodore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Marmota flaviventris; multipredator hypothesis; predation risk; relaxed selection; yellow bellied marmot

Indexed keywords

CANID; EXTINCTION; FELID; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PREDATOR; RODENT;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CANIS LUPUS; GRIMMIA; MARMOTA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; PUMA CONCOLOR; SCIURIDAE; SYLVICAPRA GRIMMIA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 70349184611     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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