Food hoarding behavior of sympatric conspecific rodents has been extensively documented during the last decades, while research concerning the influence of intraand inter-specific competition on hoarding behaviour of rodents is limited. We investigated food hoarding behaviour of buff-breasted rat (Rattus flavipectus) under conditions of semi-natural enclosures in the tropical rain-forest of the Xishuangbanna area (altitude 475–2430 m, 21?09 –22?36 N, 99?58 –101?50 E), Yunnan Province, Southwest China. The main goal of this study was to understand the influence of intra- and inter-specific competition on food hoarding behaviour of rodents......

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