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Control of energy balance by a wild ungulate, the kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) through adaptive foraging behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2008

Norman Owen-Smith
Norman Owen-Smith
Affiliation:
Centre for African Ecology, Department of Zoology, University of the WitwatersrandWits 2050, South Africa
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Symposium on ‘Mechanisms of energy compensation’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 56 , Issue 1A , March 1997 , pp. 15 - 24
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1997

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