Neither large nor small: Intermediate-sized food items for the cubs of the Patagonian gray fox (Pseudoalopex griseus)

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2281-2284

  Zapata, Sonia C ^a   Travaini, Alejandro ^a   Delibes, Miguel ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; FOOD PROVISIONING; PREY SIZE;

ARGENTINA; NEUQUEN PROVINCE;

ARMADILLO; ARTHROPODA; AVES; CANIDAE; CARNIVORA; DASYPODIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPUS; PSEUDOALOPEX; PSEUDOALOPEX GRISEUS; RODENTIA; SQUAMATA; UNGULATA; UROCYON; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032322326     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjz-76-12-2281     Document Type: Article

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