Group territoriality in two populations of African lions

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1143-1147

  Heinsohn, Robert ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANTHERA LEO;

GROUP TERRITORIALITY; LION; TERRITORIALITY;

TANZANIA, NGORONGORO CRATER; TANZANIA, SERENGETI;

EID: 0031150184     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0316     Document Type: Article

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