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Rojas, B., Burdfield-Steel, E. (2018). Predator Defense. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_708-1
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