Flying squirrels use a mortise-tenon structure to fix nuts on understory twigs

Squirrels of temperate zones commonly store nuts or seeds under leaf litter, in hollow logs, or even in holes in the ground; however, in the humid rainforests of Jianfengling in Hainan, South China, we show that some flying squirrels cache elliptical or oblate nuts by hanging them securely in vegeta...

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Autores principales: Xu, Han, Xia, Lian, Spence, John R, Lin, Mingxian, Lu, Chunyang, Li, Yanpeng, Chen, Jie, Luo, Tushou, Li, Yide, Fang, Suqin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2023
Materias:
Ecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10328505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37309191
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84967

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10328505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37309191
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84967

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