Dung beetles use their dung ball as a mobile thermal refuge
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- 23 October 2012
- journal article
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- Published by Elsevier BV in Current Biology
- Vol. 22 (20), R863-R864
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.08.057
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