The Food Habits of the Barn Owl Tyto Alba at Three Sites on Madagascar
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THE FOOD HABITS OF THE BARN OWL TYTO ALBA AT THREE SITES ON MADAGASCAR Steven M. Goodman a , Olivier Langrand b & Christopher J. Raxworthy c a Field Museum of Natural History , Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60605, U.S.A. b World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) , B. P. 738, Antananarivo, 101, Madagascar c Division of Herpetology , Museum of Zoology, The University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, U.S.A. Published online: 06 Oct 2010.
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