Cargando…
Wild Norway Rats Do Not Avoid Predator Scents When Collecting Food in a Familiar Habitat: A Field Study
The ability to avoid predators is crucial to wild prey animals’ survival. Potential danger is signalled, among others, by the presence of predator scents. These odors are used in research both to trigger and to study fear reactions in laboratory animals; they are also employed as repellents against...
Autores principales: | Stryjek, Rafał, Mioduszewska, Berenika, Spaltabaka-Gędek, Ewelina, Juszczak, Grzegorz R. |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Nature Publishing Group UK
2018
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29930280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27054-4 |
Ejemplares similares
-
Species Specific Behavioural Patterns (Digging and Swimming) and Reaction to Novel Objects in Wild Type, Wistar, Sprague-Dawley and Brown Norway Rats
por: Stryjek, Rafał, et al.
Publicado: (2012) -
Familiarity Breeds Contempt: Kangaroos Persistently Avoid Areas with Experimentally Deployed Dingo Scents
por: Parsons, Michael H., et al.
Publicado: (2010) -
Scented grasses in Norway—identity and uses
por: Alm, Torbjørn
Publicado: (2015) -
Wild great and blue tits do not avoid chemical cues of predators when selecting cavities for roosting
por: Amo, Luisa, et al.
Publicado: (2018) -
Using an Innovation Arena to compare wild-caught and laboratory Goffin’s cockatoos
por: Rössler, Theresa, et al.
Publicado: (2020)