Predator detection and dilution as benefits of associations between yellow mongooses and Cape ground squirrels

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1187-1194

  Makenbach, Sarah A ^a   Waterman, Jane M ^a   Roth, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cynictis pencillatus; Eavesdropping; Mixed species groups; Mutualism; Vigilance; Xerus inauris; Yellow mongoose

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CARNIVORE; CONSPECIFIC; CORRELATION; GROUP SIZE; MUTUALISM; PERSISTENCE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RODENT; VIGILANCE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

CYNICTIS; CYNICTIS PENICILLATA; HERPESTIDAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; XERUS INAURIS;

EID: 84878948943     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1544-3     Document Type: Article

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