Diet mixing in the omnivorous tortoise Kinixys spekii

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 373-385

  Hailey, A ^a,b   Chidavaenzi, R L ^a,c   Loveridge, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b National Museum of Natural History ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c National Museum of Natural History   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Diet selection; Digestive efficiency; Energetics; Mineral nutrition; Protein

Indexed keywords

DIET; DIGESTIBILITY; NUTRITION; OMNIVORY; TORTOISE;

KINIXYS SPEKII;

EID: 0031823337     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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