Abstract:A variety of animals store food to cope with temporally variable or unpredictable food supplies. We have little knowledge of the food hoarding behavior of David’s rock squirrels (Sciurotamias davidianus),a species endemic to China and mainly distributed in the hilly temperate zone in northern China. We constructed semi-natural enclosures in the Donglingshan mountains area in which we investigated the squirrels’food hoarding behavior by providing them with tagged walnuts (Juglans regia)......

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