Pudu, the smallest deer of the world: 10 years of endocrine studies of Southern pudu (Pudu puda) in Chile

European Journal of Wildlife Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 129-138

  Bubenik, G A ^a   Reyes, Eugenia ^b   Schams, D ^c   Lobos, A ^b   Bartos L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

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