Factors Affecting Student Tolerance for Free-Roaming Cats

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 263-278

  Wald, Dara M ^a   Jacobson, Susan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; free roaming feral cats; management; risk perception; wildlife acceptance capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880301666     PISSN: 10871209     EISSN: 1533158X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2013.787660     Document Type: Article

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