Evidence that the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) uses scent to avoid omnivore mammals
BACKGROUND: The detection of predator chemical cues is an important antipredatory behaviour as it allows an early assessment of predation risk without encountering the predator and therefore increases survival. For instance, since chemical cues are often by-products of metabolism, olfaction may gath...
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Sociedad de Biología de Chile
2015
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2015000100005 |
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