Responses of foraging Eurasian beavers Castor fiber to predator odours

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-21

  Rosell, Frank ^a,b   Czech, Andrzej ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Castor fiber; Eurasian beaver; Feeding repellents; Foraging; Odours; Poland; Predators

Indexed keywords

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CARNIVORA; CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE; LONTRA CANADENSIS; LUTRA LUTRA; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; URSUS ARCTOS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0034026265     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.2000.033     Document Type: Article

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