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Prevalence of Ingested Fish Hooks in Freshwater Turtles from Five Rivers in the Southeastern United States

Freshwater turtles may ingest baited fish hooks because many are opportunistic scavengers. Although the ingestion of fish hooks is known to be a source of mortality in multiple vertebrate groups, the prevalence of hook ingestion by freshwater turtles has not been well studied. We trapped turtles fro...

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Autores principales: Steen, David A., Hopkins, Brittney C., Van Dyke, James U., Hopkins, William A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24621919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091368