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Fatal attack of a pit viper,Bothrops jararaca, on an infant buffy-tufted ear marmoset (Callithrix aurita)

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  1. Honorly Kátia M. Corrêa

    Present address: Departamento de Psicologia Experimental, Universidade Federal do Pará, Caixa Postal 8607, Cep 66075-150, Belém, Pará, Brazil

  2. Paulo E. G. Coutinho

    Present address: Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Caixa Postal 8607, Cep 66075-150, Belém, Pará, Brazil

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    Corrêa, H.K.M., Coutinho, P.E.G. Fatal attack of a pit viper,Bothrops jararaca, on an infant buffy-tufted ear marmoset (Callithrix aurita). Primates 38, 215–217 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02382010

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