Efficacy of feces as an attractant for mammalian carnivores

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 348-352

  Howard, Mark E ^a   Zuercher, Gerald L ^a   Gipson, Philip S ^a   Livingston, Troy R ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS LATRANS; LYNX; LYNX RUFUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036711345     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3672492     Document Type: Review

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