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Vigilance in a selfish herd

✍ Scribed by Guy Beauchamp

Book ID: 113451044
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 303 KB
Volume: 73
Category: Article
ISSN: 0003-3472
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.09.004

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