Snake mortality associated with late season radio-transmitter implantation

Herpetological Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 155-156

  Rudolph, D Craig ^a   Burgdorf, Shirley J ^a   Schaefer, Richard R ^a   Conner, R N ^a   Zappalorti, Robert T ^b  

^a Southern Research Station   (United States)

^b Herpetological Associates Inc   (United States)

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