Milk intake in blue fox (Alopex lagopus) and silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) cubs in the early suckling period

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 225-236

  Ahlstrøm, Øystein ^a   Wamberg, Søren ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blue fox; Body growth; Carnivores; Energy requirement; Milk intake; Silver fox; Tritium; Water turnover

Indexed keywords

TRITIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WATER; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY; FOX; GROWTH RATE; LITTER SIZE; MILK; NONHUMAN; SUCKLING;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; CANIDAE; LAGOPUS; TRITIUM; VULPES LAGOPUS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0033754506     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00269-5     Document Type: Article

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