Do meerkat (Suricata suricatta) pups exhibit strategic begging behaviour and so exploit adults that feed at relatively high rates?

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

• Publication date

  2009-05-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00265-009-0777-7
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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