Nutrition and burrowing energetics of the Cape mole-rat Georychus capensis

Oecologia

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 81-87

  Du Toit, J T ^a   Jarvis, J U M ^a   Louw, G N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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EID: 0022173419     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00378556     Document Type: Article

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