No evidence of social hierarchy amongst feeding badgers, Meles meles

Ethology

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 613-628

  Macdonald, David W ^a   Stewart, Paul D ^a   Johnson, Paul J ^a   Porkert, Jiri ^a   Buesching, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; MUSTELID; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

MELES MELES; MUSTELIDAE; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 0036313553     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00807.x     Document Type: Article

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