Culling-induced changes in badger (Meles meles) behaviour, social organisation and the epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Riordan, Philip ^a   Delahay, Richard John ^b   Cheeseman, Chris ^b   Johnson, Paul James ^a   Macdonald, David Whyte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; MALE; MELES MELES; MUSTELIDAE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STRESS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SUMMER; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATTLE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 83355176321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028904     Document Type: Article

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