Food provisioning by island foxes, Urocyon littoralis, to conspecifics caught in traps

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-86

  Garcelon, David K ^a   Roemer, Gary W ^a,d   Philips, R Brand ^b   Coonan, Timothy J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Channel Islands National Park   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UROCYON LITTORALIS;

EID: 0032937918     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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