Counting pumas by categorizing physical evidence

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 381-400

  McBride, Roy T ^a   McBride, Rocky T ^b   McBride, Rowdy M ^a   McBride, Cougar E ^a  

^a Livestock Protection Company   (United States)

^b Project Jaguar   (Paraguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMA CONCOLOR; PUMA CONCOLOR CORYI;

EID: 54749102807     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092-7.3.381     Document Type: Article

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