Foraging behaviour and sexual segregation in bighorn sheep

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 99-106

  Ruckstuhl, Kathreen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; MOVEMENT PATTERN; SEXUAL SEGREGATION; TIME BUDGET; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0032126917     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0745     Document Type: Article

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