Ranging behaviour of red foxes during the mating and breeding seasons

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-65

  Cavallini, Paolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mating season; Mating system; Ranging behaviour; Red fox; Vocalisation; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0030063174     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1996.9522935     Document Type: Article

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