Fruits, fingers, and fermentation: The sensory cues available to foraging primates

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 295-303

  Dominy, Nathaniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1093/icb/44.4.295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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