What influences the home range size of free-roaming domestic dogs?
In many regions of the world domestic dogs are free roaming and live in close relationship with humans. These free-roaming domestic dogs (FRDD) can cause public health problems such as dog bites and transmission of infectious diseases. To effectively control diseases transmitted by FRDD, knowledge o...
| Publicado en: | Epidemiology & Infection Vol. 145; no. 7; pp. 1339 - 1351 |
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Cambridge University Press
May2017
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