Tranquillo, Claudia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7682-356X
Wauters, Lucas A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4871-5035
Santicchia, Francesca http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4814-9632
Panzeri, Mattia http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-3642
Preatoni, Damiano http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8760-1316
Martinoli, Adriano http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0298-0869
Bisi, Francesco http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4908-5012
Funding for this research was provided by:
Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
Article History
Accepted: 2 September 2023
First Online: 8 September 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Trapping, marking and handling of squirrels were performed under the Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioral research and teaching (Animal Behaviour, 2020, 159, I–XI; ExternalRef removed). Legal requirements according to the Italian Wildlife Protection and Hunting Law L.N. 157 from 1992 and fieldwork was approved by authorization decrees n. 1938 of 18/02/2020 from Direzione Generale Agricoltura, Alimentazione E Sistemi Verdi, Regione Lombardia; authorizations n. 180–14616 of 06/07/2011 and n. 294–34,626 of 12/09/2014 from the Provincia di Torino, authorizations n. 62–3025 of 20/03/2017 and n. 1015 of 20/03/2020 from Città Metropolitana di Torino.