Use of millipedes by black lemurs to anoint their bodies

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 170-171

  Birkinshaw, Christopher R ^a  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Anointing behaviour; Black lemur; Charactopygus; Eulemur macaco; Madagascar; Millipede

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032989839     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000021691     Document Type: Article

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