Behaviour and social ecology of free-ranging dogs

The Behavioural Biology of Dogs

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 145-165

  Boitani, Luigi ^a   Ciucci, Paolo ^a   Ortolani, Alessia ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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