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Urban Cats as Pests and Pets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Peter J. Jarvis
Affiliation:
School of Geography, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England, UK.

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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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