Between a rock and a hard place: Responses of eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina) when trapped between railroad tracks

Herpetological Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-148

  Kornilev, Yurii V ^a   Price, Steven J ^a   Dorcas, Michael E ^a  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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TERRAPENE CAROLINA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33845749584     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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