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Thorpe, S.K.S., Chappell, J. (2019). Arboreality. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1414-1

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