Scottish wildcat (felis silvestris grampia) personality and subjective well-being: Implications for captive management

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 147, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 261-267

  Gartner, Marieke Cassia ^a   Weiss, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Captive management; Personality; Well being; Wildcat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CAPTIVE POPULATION; DOMINANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; FELIS SILVESTRIS;

EID: 84883306541     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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