Timing of feeding bouts of mountain lions

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 222-226

  Pierce, Becky M ^a,b   Bleich, Vernon C ^a,b   Chetkiewicz, Cheryl Lesley B ^b,d   Wehausen, John D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c Visit Scho Dept Integrat Biol   (United States)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching; California; Feeding ecology; Mountain lion; Predation; Puma concolor; Remote photography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003136590     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382857     Document Type: Article

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