Incisors as digging tools in molerats (Bathyergidae)

African Zoology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 230-235

  Van Der Merwe, M ^a   Botha, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

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