Extraterritorial hunting expeditions to intense fire scars by feral cats

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  McGregor, Hugh W ^a,b   Legge, Sarah ^a   Jones, Menna E ^b   Johnson, Christopher N ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; CAT; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRALIA; CATS; FEMALE; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84960156812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22559     Document Type: Article

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