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Are goldish spiders able to teach naïve predators to avoid bullet ants? A possible case of Müllerian mimicry in spiders and ants

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Perger, Robert (2021): Are goldish spiders able to teach naïve predators to avoid bullet ants? A possible case of Müllerian mimicry in spiders and ants. Journal of Natural History 55 (9-10): 625-627, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1914450, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2021.1914450

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