Effect of guard dogs on the behavior and reproduction of gazelles in cattle enclosures on the Golan Heights

Animal Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-162

  Gingold, G ^a   Yom Tov, Y ^a   Kronfeld Schor, N ^a   Geffen, E ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cattle; Gazella gazella; Golan Heights; Guard dogs; Mountain gazelle

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CATTLE; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RUMINANT; SURVIVAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; GOLAN HEIGHTS; MIDDLE EAST; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES;

BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; GAZELLA; GAZELLA GAZELLA;

EID: 63149147200     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00235.x     Document Type: Article

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