Large termite nests in a moundfield on the Embakasi Plain, Kenya (Isoptera: Termitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 215-225

  Darlington, J P E C ^a   Bagine, R K N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

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