Tradeoff Between Travel Speed and Olfactory Food Detection in Ring-Tailed Coatis (Nasua nasua)

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 671-679

  Hirsch, Ben T ^a,b  

^a Barro Colorado Island   (Panama)

^b NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; INVERTEBRATE; LEAF LITTER; MAMMAL; MOVEMENT; OLFACTORY CUE; TRADE-OFF; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; NASUA; NASUA NASUA;

EID: 77954601496     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01783.x     Document Type: Article

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