Black bear family breakup in western Virginia

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-122

  Lee, Daniel J ^a,b   Vaughan, Michael R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA Polytech Inst and State Univ ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URSUS; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 7444256602     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1092-6194(2004)011[0111:BBFBIW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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