Feasibility of using proximity tags to locate female lion panthera leo kills

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 435-441

  Tambling, Craig J ^a,b   Belton, Lydia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Global positioning system; Kill site detection; Panthera leo; Proximity tags; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

PANTHERA; PANTHERA LEO;

EID: 76449101333     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/09-029     Document Type: Article

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