Stability in Activity and Boldness Across Time and Context in Captive Siberian Dwarf Hamsters

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 518-533

  Kanda, L Leann ^a   Louon, Laura ^a   Straley, Katherine ^a  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEST BOX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RODENT; STABILIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 84861214358     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02038.x     Document Type: Article

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