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Solitary Ethiopian wolves increase predation success on rodents when among grazing gelada monkey herds

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Venkataraman, Vivek V., Kerby, Jeffrey T., Nguyen, Nga, Ashenafi, Zelealem Tefera, Fashing, Peter J. (2015): Solitary Ethiopian wolves increase predation success on rodents when among grazing gelada monkey herds. Journal of Mammalogy 96 (1): 129-137, DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyu013, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyu013

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