Decaying wood is a sodium source for mountain gorillas

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2006-09-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0480PMID 17148393PMCID PMC1686189
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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