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- 1962
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- article
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 319-331
- Citations
- 157
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Kenneth B. Armitage
(1962).
Social behaviour of a colony of the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris).
Animal Behaviour
, 10
(3-4)
, 319-331.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-3472(62)90055-6
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- 10.1016/0003-3472(62)90055-6