Sweeping the house clean: burrow architecture and seasonal digging activity in the East African root rat from Tanzania

We investigated changes in burrow architecture and fractal dimension across seasons and between the sexes in the solitary East African root rat Tachyoryctes splendens over an entire calendar year. The basic burrow system comprised a main tunnel reticulating into foraging tunnels, a nest consisting o...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of zoology (1987) 2014-08, Vol.293 (4), p.271-280
Hauptverfasser:	Katandukila, J. V., Chimimba, C. T., Bennett, N. C., Makundi, R. H., Le Comber, S. C., Faulkes, C. G.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	burrow architecture Foraging behavior fractal dimension mole-rat Rodents root rat Seasons Sexes subterranean rodent Tachyoryctes splendens Zoology
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