Do differences in skull morphology and bite performance explain dietary specialization in sea otters?

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Mammalogy

• Publication date

  2017-10-03

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/jmammal/gyx091
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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