ECOLOGY OF SOCIALITY IN RODENTS: A CTENOMYID PERSPECTIVE
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- 1 November 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 84 (4) , 1198-1211
- https://doi.org/10.1644/ble-014
Abstract
Group living is an important component of the social biology of numerous rodent species. For the past 2 decades, efforts to understand the ecologicalKeywords
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