Demographic correlates of bite wounding in Eurasian badgers, Meles meles L., in stable and perturbed populations

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1047-1055

  Delahay, R J ^a   Walker, N J ^b   Forrester, G J ^a   Harmsen, B ^c   Riordan, P ^c   Macdonald, D W ^c   Newman, C ^c   Cheeseman, C L ^a  

^a Central Science Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MAMMAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WOUNDING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

MELES MELES; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 33646272424     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.07.018     Document Type: Article

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