The 30-year blues: What We know and don't know about life history, group size, and group fission of blue monkeys in the Kakamega forest, Kenya

Long-Term Field Studies of Primates

Volumn 9783642225147, Issue , 2012, Pages 289-311

  Cords, Marina ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22514-7_13     Document Type: Chapter

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