Social and play behavior in a wild eastern coyote, canis latrans, pack

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 397-401

  Way, Jonathan G ^a,b  

^a Barnstable High School   (United States)

^b Eastern Coyote Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Amiable affiliative interactions; Canis latrans; Eastern Coyote; Massachusetts; Play behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY SIZE; BREEDING POPULATION; CANID; CARNIVORE; GROUP SIZE; PLAY;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CANIS LATRANS;

EID: 66249087261     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v121i4.511     Document Type: Article

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