The Living Dead: Time to Integrate Scavenging into Ecological Teaching

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  2015

• Venue

  BioScience

• Publication date

  2015-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Education, Environmental Science, Philosophy

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  DOI 10.1093/BIOSCI/BIV101
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