Locomotor activity levels and the dispersal of western screech-owls, Otus kennicottii

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 558-561

  Belthoff, James R ^a   Dufty, Alfred M ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0028896347     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1995.0272     Document Type: Article

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