Feeding gum Arabic to new World monkeys: Species differences and palatability

Animal Welfare

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 249-256

  Herron, S ^a   Price, E ^a   Wormell, D ^a  

^a DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Exudates; Goeldi's monkey; Gum; Marmoset; Nutrition; Tamarin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347769392     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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