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Courtship and copulation of the gray whale in the Bering Sea at St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

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    E. G. Franz Sauer

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Sauer, E.G.F. Courtship and copulation of the gray whale in the Bering Sea at St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Psychol. Forsch. 27, 157–174 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00421840

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