Faecal avoidance and selective foraging: Do wild mice have the luxury to avoid faeces?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 559-566

  Walsh, Patrick T ^a   McCreless, Erin ^b   Pedersen, Amy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiparasite behaviour; Faecal avoidance; Faecal oral transmission; Feeding behaviour; Laboratory mouse; Parasite; Peromyscus; Selective foraging; Wild immunology

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; CONSPECIFIC; FECES; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NESTING; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84882887734     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.06.011     Document Type: Article

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