Insect-defense behavior by desert bighorn sheep

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 635-643

  Mooring, Michael S ^a   Fitzpatrick, Thomas A ^a   Fraser, Ian C ^a   Benjamin, Jill E ^a   Reisig, Dominic D ^a   Nishihira, Tara T ^a  

^a POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; OVIS CANADENSIS MEXICANA; UNGULATA;

EID: 1642539001     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2003)048<0635:IBBDBS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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