Diet of brown hyaenas (Parahyaena brunnea) on the Namibian coast

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 150-159

  Kuhn, Brian F ^a   Skinner, John D ^a   Wiesel, Ingrid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Brown Hyena Research Project   (Namibia)

Author keywords

Brown hyaena; Diet; Faunal assemblages; Predation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008844548     PISSN: 0035919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00359190809519219     Document Type: Article

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