Fox squirrels match food assessment and cache effort to value and scarcity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Delgado, Mikel M ^a   Nicholas, Molly ^a   Petrie, Daniel J ^a   Jacobs, Lucia F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD STORAGE; FOX; MALE; NONHUMAN; SCIURIDAE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; FOOD; NUT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TIME;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; NUTS; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899878046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092892     Document Type: Article

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