Social segregation is not a consequence of habitat segregation in red deer and feral soay sheep

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1151-1157

  Conradt, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Large   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; MAMMAL; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SOCIAL SEGREGATION;

ARTIODACTYLA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0033134623     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1067     Document Type: Article

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