The homing frog: High homing performance in a territorial dendrobatid frog allobates femoralis (dendrobatidae)

Ethology

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 762-768

  Pašukonis, Andrius ^a   Ringler, Max ^a   Brandl, Hanja B ^b   Mangione, Rosanna ^a   Ringler, Eva ^a   Hödl, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FROG; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY; TRANSLOCATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; DENDROBATIDAE; EPIPEDOBATES FEMORALIS;

EID: 84882645919     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12116     Document Type: Article

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