Responses of seed-hoarding behaviour to conspecific audiences in scatter- and/or larder-hoarding rodents

Behaviour

Volumn 148, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 825-842

  Zhang, Hongmao ^a,b   Wang, Yu ^a   Zhang, Zhibin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

conspecific competition; food hoarding; pilferage; sex differences; social dominance

Indexed keywords

APODEMUS PENINSULAE; NIVIVENTER CONFUCIANUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84863027091     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579511X577265     Document Type: Review

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