Behavioural impacts of torpor expression: A transient effect in captive eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 110-111, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-121

  Thompson, Amy B ^a   Montiglio, Pierre Olivier ^b   Humphries, Murray M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Brain structure; Eastern chipmunk; Exploration; Spatial memory; Torpor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FITNESS; HABITUATION; HIBERNATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAMIAS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORPOR;

EID: 84873192132     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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