Female and male adult brush mice (Peromyscus boylii) use ultrasonic vocalizations in the wild

Behaviour

Volumn 150, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1747-1766

  Kalcounis Rueppell, M C ^a   Petric, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

field; mouse; nocturnal; USV; wild

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891870635     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003118     Document Type: Article

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