Cost of digging is determined by intrinsic factors rather than by substrate quality in two subterranean rodent species

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-58

  Zelová, Jitka ^a   Šumbera, Radim ^a   Okrouhlík, Jan ^a   Burda, Hynek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bathyergidae; Digging metabolic rate; Mass dependent DMR; Sociality; Subterranean rodent

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BURROWING SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOIL QUALITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY TEMPERATURE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MOLE RATS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 71849102922     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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