Sex-specific patterns of mineral lick preference in white-tailed deer

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 409-414

  Atwood, Todd C ^a   Weeks Jr , Harmon P ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 1642476728     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1092-6194(2003)010[0409:SPOMLP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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