Life history traits and reproduction of giant pandas in the qinling mountains of China

Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 74-76

  Wang, Dajun ^a   Zhu, Xiaojian ^a   Pan, Wenshi ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

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