Territorial behaviour of the strawberry poison-dart frog, Dendrobates pumilio

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 437-442

  Pröhl, Heike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; DENDROBATES PUMILIO; DENDROBATIDAE; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 0001167491     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853897X00495     Document Type: Article

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