Familiarity breeds contempt: Kangaroos persistently avoid areas with experimentally deployed dingo scents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Parsons, Michael H ^a,b   Blumstein, Daniel T ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FECES; FEEDING; FEMALE; FORAGING; HABITUATION; KANGAROO; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PALATABILITY; PREDATOR; URINE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CUES; DOGS; FEAR; MACROPODIDAE; ODORS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS DINGO; CANIS LUPUS; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS; MACROPUS AGILIS; MACROPUS FULIGINOSUS; MACROPUS RUFUS; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956288700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010403     Document Type: Article

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