Giant panda scent-marking strategies in the wild: Role of season, sex and marking surface

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-44

  Nie, Yonggang ^a,b   Swaisgood, Ronald R ^c   Zhang, Zejun ^a,d   Hu, Yibo ^a   Ma, Yisheng ^e   Wei, Fuwen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Institute for Conservation Research   (United States)

^d CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Foping National Nature Reserve   (China)

Author keywords

Ailuropoda melanoleuca; Chemical communication; Giant panda; Scent marking; Seasonality; Signal detection; Signalling theory

Indexed keywords

BARK; BIOENERGETICS; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BODY SIZE; BREEDING SEASON; CHEMICAL CUE; DEER; DIET; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NATURE RESERVE; SCENT MARKING; SEASONALITY; SEX ROLE; SIGNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILDERNESS AREA;

CHINA; FOPING NATURE RESERVE; SHAANXI;

AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; ANIMALIA; BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84862660252     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.026     Document Type: Article

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