Scent-mark identification and scent-marking behaviour in African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus)

Ethology

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 644-652

  Jordan, Neil R ^a,b   Golabek, Krystyna A ^a,b   Apps, Peter J ^a   Gilfillan, Geoffrey D ^a   Mcnutt, John W ^a  

^a BOTSWANA PREDATOR CONSERVATION TRUST   (Botswana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEFECATION; DOMINANCE; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MAMMAL; SCENT MARKING; SUBSTRATE; URINE; WILD POPULATION;

AFRICA;

EID: 84879773591     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12105     Document Type: Article

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