Determining sexual maturity of raccoons by external versus internal aging criteria

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 231-234

  Kramer, Monique T ^a   Warren, Robert J ^a   Ratnaswamy, Mary J ^a,b   Bond, Bobby T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging criteria; Maturity; Procyon lotor; Raccoons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032866274     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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