Ocelot Awareness among Latinos on the Texas and Tamaulipas Border
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Ocelot Awareness among Latinos on the Texas and Tamaulipas Border M. Nils Peterson a; Mitch Sternberg b; Angelica Lopez c; Jianguo Liu d a Fisheries & Wildlife Program, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA b Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Alamo, Texas, USA c Department of Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA d Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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