Translocation and introduction of the Zanzibar red colobus monkey: Success and failure with an endangered island endemic

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Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 277-284

  Struhsaker, Thomas T ^a   Siex, Kristin S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; PRIMATE; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION;

TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR;

PROCOLOBUS KIRKII;

EID: 0031723817     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3008.1998.d01-57.x     Document Type: Article

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