Body temperature changes in wild-living badgers Meles meles through the winter

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 97-101

  Bevanger, Kjetil ^a   Brøseth, Henrik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Burrows; Meles meles; Sett temperature; Winter lethargy

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031833986     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.1998.006     Document Type: Article

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