Assessing environmental enrichment for juvenile Jamaican boas Epicrates subflavus stejneger, 1901

Dodo

Volumn 32, Issue 0, 1996, Pages 155-162

  Cardiff, Ian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CHESTER ZOO   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Captive breeding; Environmental enrichment; Epicrates subflavus; Jamaican boa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345789353     PISSN: 02655640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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