The innate basis of food-hoarding decisions in grey squirrels: evidence for behavioural adaptations to the oaks

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  2006

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  Animal Behaviour

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  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.ANBEHAV.2005.05.005
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