Morning ambush attacks by black-footed ferrets on emerging prairie dogs

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 345-352

  Eads, D A ^a   Biggins, D E ^b   Jachowski, D S ^a   Livieri, T M ^c   Millspaugh, J J ^a   Forsberg, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Prairie Wildlife Research Colorado   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

ambush; Cynomys; Mustela nigripes; predation; predator behavior; telemetry

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BIOTELEMETRY; BURROW; CANID; MUSTELID; PRAIRIE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RADIOTELEMETRY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LEUCURUS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; MUSTELA; MUSTELA NIGRIPES;

EID: 78650117870     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2010.510037     Document Type: Article

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