Do ecotypes of bushbuck differ in grouping patterns?

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 71-78

  Wronski, Torsten ^a,b   Apio, Ann ^c,d   Plath, Martin ^f   Averbeck, Christiane ^e  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e Goethe University Frankfurt am Main ^*  (Zimbabwe)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antelopes; Ecological diversification; Group composition; Group size; Social organization

Indexed keywords

AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; TRAGELAPHUS; TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS;

EID: 70549106954     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-009-0058-5     Document Type: Article

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