Visual communication: Evolution, ecology, and functional mechanisms

Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-28

  Schaefer, H Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84855535987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02624-9_1     Document Type: Chapter

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