Monitoring the effects of non-trivial handling in free-living cheetahs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 547-557

  Laurenson, M Karen ^a,b   Caro, T M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Serengeti Wildlife Research Institute   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEETAH; HANDLING; RADIO TRACKING;

EID: 0028180854     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1994.1078     Document Type: Article

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