Raccoon Social Networks and the Potential for Disease Transmission

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Hirsch, Ben T ^a,b   Prange, Suzanne ^c   Hauver, Stephanie A ^d   Gehrt, Stanley D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c Ohio Division of Wildlife   (United States)

^d BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RACCOON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; RABIES; RACCOONS;

EID: 84885399307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075830     Document Type: Article

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