Hamsters use predator odors as indirect cues of predation risk

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 517-523

  McPhee, M Elsbeth ^a   Segal, Andrea ^a   Johnston, Robert E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CONSPECIFIC; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; KINSHIP; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; RODENT; SECRETION;

CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; MUSTELA; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO;

EID: 77953760929     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01766.x     Document Type: Article

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