Ontogeny of dominance in free-living red foxes

Ethology

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1008-1019

  Meyer, Sandrine ^a,b   Weber, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; ETHOGRAM; RED FOX; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL RANK;

VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0030301925     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01178.x     Document Type: Article

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