Prey Preference of Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia
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Prey Preference of Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia
Accurate information about the diet of large carnivores that are elusive and inhabit inaccessible terrain, is required to properly design conservation strategies. Predation on livestock and retaliatory killing of predators have become serious issues throughout the range of the snow leopard. Several feeding ecology studies of snow leopards have been conducted using classical approaches. These te...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032104