McSorley, G.: The Relative Importance of Sight and Smell in the Ability of Octodon Degus to Identify Food

McSorley, Grant: The Relative Importance of Sight and Smell in the Ability of Octodon Degus to Identify Food.
Issue 3 - Fall 2002

Link: http://www.place.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/~drjes/issues/3/degus.html

Zitat :: Abstract

We determined whether sight or smell plays a larger role in food identification by Octodon Degus. The resultant preference of the Degus for the food that they could smell, and the analysis of the results with a c2 test, showed that the sense of smell is the primary sense used by Degus to recognise food.

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