Articles | Volume 7, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-7-35-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-7-35-2020
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15 Dec 2020
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Potential self-medication by brown titi monkeys, Plecturocebus brunneus, in an urban fragment forest in the Brazilian Amazon

Brenda Letícia Pereira Oliveira, João Pedro Souza-Alves, and Marcela Alvares Oliveira

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