Fourteen security lessons from antipredator behavior

Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 147-158

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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