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Welfare in commensal rodent trapping: one step forward, two steps back

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2023

SE Baker*
Affiliation:
Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Oxfordshire OX13 5QL, UK
TM Sharp
Affiliation:
Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station, Centre of Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia
*
* Contact for correspondence: sandra.baker@zoo.ox.ac.uk

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© 2015 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

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