Exploiting olfactory learning in alien rats to protect birds' eggs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19304-19309

  Price, Catherine J ^a,b   Banks, Peter B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraging behavior; Habituation; Information use; Predation; Sensory learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EGG; LEARNING; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMELLING; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; COTURNIX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; OVUM; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS;

AVES; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS;

EID: 84869824774     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210981109     Document Type: Article

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