A comparison of the diets of feral Cats Felis Catus & red foxes vulpes vulpes on Phillip Island, Victoria

Australian Mammalogy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-93

  Kirkwood, Roger ^a   Dann, Peter ^a   Belvedere, Maria ^b  

^a Phillip Island Nature Park   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diet; Eudyptula minor; European rabbit; Little penguin; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Puffinus tenuirostris; Short Tailed shearwater

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249951922     PISSN: 03100049     EISSN: 18367402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/am05089     Document Type: Article

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