Notes on the biology of the bushy-tailed jird, Sekeetamys calurus, in the Central Negev, Israel

Mammalia

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 374-377

  Shenbrot, G I ^a   Krasnov, B R ^a   Khokhlova, I S ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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