Using satellite telemetry to mitigate elephant-human conflict: An experiment in northern West Bengal, India

Current Science

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1827-1831

  Venkataraman, Arun B ^a   Saandeep, R ^a   Baskaran, N ^a   Roy, M ^a   Madhivanan, A ^a   Sukumar, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

EID: 23744512627     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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