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Bicca-Marques, J.C., Pessoa, D.M.A. (2018). Platyrrhine Sensory Systems. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1857-1

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