A new method of determining diets of rodents

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1198-1202

  Kronfeld, Noga ^a   Dayan, Tamar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acomys; Diet; Feces; Food habits; Israel; Spiny mice; Stomach contents; Stomach pumping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001608507     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383011     Document Type: Article

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