Food Hoarding by the Least Shrew (Cryptotis parva): Intersexual and Prey Type Effects
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The American Midland Naturalist
- Vol. 122 (1), 26-33
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2425679
Abstract
We examined the hoarding behavior of male and female least shrews Cryptotis parva in response to two type of insect prey. The shrews hoarded a significantly greater proportion of crickets than mealworms and hoarded crickets and mealworms in different positions relative to the nest; crickets were hoarded near and mealworms away from the nest. Female shrews killed and hoarded more prey, regardless of type, than males. The variance in hoarding and killing of crickets by females was lower than in males.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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