Feeding ecology and seed dispersal of sympatric cheirogaleid lemurs (Microcebus murinus, Cheirogaleus medius, Cheirogaleus major) in the littoral rainforest of south‐east Madagascar

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  2007

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  Journal of Zoology

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  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1469-7998.2006.00222.X
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