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Williams, Dana M. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3006-9183
Wu, Catherine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0506-9774
Blumstein, Daniel T. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5793-9244
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Animal Behavior Society (Student Research Grant)
American Society of Mammologists (Grants-in-Aid of Research)
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
National Science Foundation (DGE-1650604, Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellowship, 1557130, 1646666)
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Article History
Received: 29 June 2020
Revised: 15 December 2020
Accepted: 18 December 2020
First Online: 8 February 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The marmot study population is free-living and could freely interact with or leave the puzzle box as they desired. None were harmed by interacting with the box. Injuries are very rare during trapping and typically involves scrapes that are treated during handling. Marmots were studied under ARC protocol 2001-191-01 by the University of California Los Angeles Animal Care Committee on 13 May 2002, and renewed annually, as well as annual permits issued by the Colorado Division of Wildlife (TR519) and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory’s Animal Care Committee.
