Flight by feral reindeer Rangifer tarandus tarandus in response to a directly approaching human on foot or on skis

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 403-413

  Reimers, Eigil ^a,b   Miller, Frank L ^c   Eftestøl, Sindre ^a   Colman, Jonathan E ^a   Dahle, Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feral reindeer; Flight behaviour; Human disturbance; Rangifer tarandus tarandus; Recreation

Indexed keywords

RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS TARANDUS;

EID: 33845951599     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2006)12[403:FBFRRT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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