Male salamanders remember individuals based on chemical or visual cues

Behaviour

Volumn 146, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1485-1498

  Kohn, Nancy R ^a   Jaeger, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

MEMORY OF INDIVIDUALS; MULTIMODAL SIGNALS; PLETHODON CINEREUS; RED BACKED SALAMANDERS

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054759443     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853909X443463     Document Type: Article

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