The presence and number of male competitor's scent marks and female reproductive state affect the response of male meadow voles to female conspecifics' odours

Behaviour

Volumn 148, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 927-943

  Vaughn, Ashlee A ^a   Ferkin, Michael H ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

mate copying; meadow voles; Odour preferences; postpartum oestrus; scent marks

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 80052334920     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579511X584375     Document Type: Article

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