Food aversion plus odor cue protects crop from wild mammals

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 785-791

  Baker, Sandra E ^a   Ellwood, Stephen A ^a   Slater, David ^a   Watkins, Richard W ^b   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European badger; Learned food aversion; Mammals; Meles meles; Model crop; Nonlethal control; Odor cue; United Kingdom; Vertebrate pest control; Ziram

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE; FOOD; MAIZE; MUSTELID; ODOR; PEST CONTROL; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

MAMMALIA; MELES MELES; SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM; TAXIDIINAE; VERTEBRATA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 42149174282     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-389     Document Type: Article

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