Sex, drugs and animal parts: Will Viagra save threatened species?

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 277-281

  Von Hippel, Frank A ^a   Von Hippel, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILDENAFIL;

ENDANGERED SPECIES; NATURE CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL PRODUCT; ANIMAL WELFARE; CHINESE MEDICINE; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG POTENCY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; LEGAL ASPECT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; REINDEER; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCTION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 0036762369     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S037689290200019X     Document Type: Note

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