Will Trespassers Be Prosecuted or Assessed According to Their Merits? A Consilient Interpretation of Territoriality in a Group-Living Carnivore, the European Badger (Meles meles)

Helga V. Tinnesand; Christina D. Buesching; Michael J. Noonan; Chris Newman; Andreas Zedrosser; Frank Rosell; David W. Macdonald

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132432

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Will Trespassers Be Prosecuted or Assessed According to Their Merits? A Consilient Interpretation of Territoriality in a Group-Living Carnivore, the European Badger (Meles meles)

Helga V. Tinnesand ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Helga V. Tinnesand, Christina D. Buesching

¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental and Health Studies, Telemark University College, N-3800 Bø i Telemark, Norway
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Christina D. Buesching ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Helga V. Tinnesand, Christina D. Buesching

* E-mail: christina.buesching@zoo.ox.ac.uk

¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Rd, Tubney, Abingdon, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom
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Michael J. Noonan,

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Rd, Tubney, Abingdon, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom
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Chris Newman,

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Rd, Tubney, Abingdon, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom
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Andreas Zedrosser,

Affiliations Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental and Health Studies, Telemark University College, N-3800 Bø i Telemark, Norway, Department of Integrative Biology, Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor Mendel Str. 33, A-1180 Vienna, Austria
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Frank Rosell,

Affiliation Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental and Health Studies, Telemark University College, N-3800 Bø i Telemark, Norway
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David W. Macdonald

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Rd, Tubney, Abingdon, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom
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Will Trespassers Be Prosecuted or Assessed According to Their Merits? A Consilient Interpretation of Territoriality in a Group-Living Carnivore, the European Badger (Meles meles)

Helga V. Tinnesand,
Christina D. Buesching,
Michael J. Noonan,
Chris Newman,
Andreas Zedrosser,
Frank Rosell,
David W. Macdonald

Published: July 6, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132432

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