Food habits of malayan sun bears in lowland tropical forests of Borneo

Ursus

Volumn 13, Issue , 2001, Pages 127-136

  Wong, Siew Te ^a   Servheen, Christopher ^a   Ambu, Laurentius ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b SABAH WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Borneo; Food habits; Helarctos Malayanus; Malaysia; Sabah; Sun bear; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342541629     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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