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Fox Squirrels Match Food Assessment and Cache Effort to Value and Scarcity
Scatter hoarders must allocate time to assess items for caching, and to carry and bury each cache. Such decisions should be driven by economic variables, such as the value of the individual food items, the scarcity of these items, competition for food items and risk of pilferage by conspecifics. The...
Autores principales: | Delgado, Mikel M., Nicholas, Molly, Petrie, Daniel J., Jacobs, Lucia F. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966826/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24671221 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092892 |
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