An assessment of injury to european badgers (meles meles) due to capture in stopped restraints

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 481-490

  Murphy, Denise ^a   O'Keeffe, James J ^b   Martin, S Wayne ^c   Gormley, Eamonn ^a   Corner, Leigh A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Wildlife Unit   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Badger; Capture; Injury; Meles meles; Stopped restraints

Indexed keywords

MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INJURY; IRELAND; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSTELIDAE; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FEMALE; IRELAND; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSTELIDAE; POPULATION CONTROL; SKIN; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

EID: 67649966584     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-45.2.481     Document Type: Article

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