Personality variation in little brown bats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Menzies, Allyson K ^a   Timonin, Mary E ^a   McGuire, Liam P ^a   Willis, Craig K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; MALE; PERSONALITY;

EID: 84894267558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080230     Document Type: Article

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