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Wolf diet and livestock selection in central Greece

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Petridou, Maria, Youlatos, Dionisios, Lazarou, Yorgos, Selinides, Kiriakos, Pylidis, Charilaos, Giannakopoulos, Alexios, Kati, Vassiliki, Iliopoulos, Yorgos (2019): Wolf diet and livestock selection in central Greece. Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 83 (6): 530-538, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2018-0021, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2018-0021

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