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Orangutan positional behavior and the nature of arboreal locomotion in Hominoidea

✍ Scribed by Susannah K.S. Thorpe; Robin H. Crompton

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 378 KB
Volume: 131
Category: Article
ISSN: 0002-9483
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20422

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