Satellite Tracking Reveals Long Distance Coastal Travel and Homing by Translocated Estuarine Crocodiles, Crocodylus porosus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Read, Mark A ^a   Grigg, Gordon C ^b   Irwin, Steve R ^c   Shanahan, Danielle ^b   Franklin, Craig E ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Australia Zoo Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMETRY; TIME;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42449112388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000949     Document Type: Article

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