Savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal, navigate a fire landscape

Current Anthropology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2017, Pages S337-S350

  Pruetz, Jill D ^a   Herzog, Nicole M ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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EID: 85029532536     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/692112     Document Type: Article

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