Wauters, Lucas A.
Mazzamuto, Maria Vittoria
Santicchia, Francesca http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4814-9632
Martinoli, Adriano
Preatoni, Damiano G.
Lurz, Peter W. W.
Bertolino, Sandro
Romeo, Claudia
Funding for this research was provided by:
Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society (grant number 6997-01)
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (COFIN project number 2003053710-006)
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Article History
Received: 1 December 2020
Accepted: 23 March 2021
First Online: 1 April 2021
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: The authors have no conflict of interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
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: All applicable institutional and/or national guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. Trapping and handling squirrels complied with the current laws on animal research in Italy and were carried out under the permission of the authorities for wildlife research and management of Lombardy Region and Gran Paradiso National Park. Legal requirements according to the Italian Wildlife Protection and Hunting Law L.N. 157 from 1992 and fieldwork was approved by authorization decrees n. 855 of 17/01/2000, n. 7489 of 29/04/2002, n. 10816 of 10/06/2002 and n. 1861 of 16/02/2004 from Direzione Generale Agricoltura, Regione Lombardia, Italy; and the permission (DGE25-2000) from the Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy. For details see “InternalRef removed” in the main text.