The urban animal: Population density and social pathology in rodents and humans

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 82-

  Ramsden, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CANNIBALISM; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROWDING; EDITORIAL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HUMAN; HYPERSEXUALITY; INFANTICIDE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PSYCHIATRIST; RODENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOPATHY; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; CROWDING; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MICE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RATS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 61449089499     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.09.062836     Document Type: Editorial

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