Different strokes: Can managing behavioral types increase post-release success?

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 364-379

  Watters, Jason V ^a   Meehan, Cheryl L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral types; Competition; Environmental enrichment; Phenotype management; Re introduction

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; REINTRODUCTION; ZOO;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845641271     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.05.036     Document Type: Article

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