The role of agonistic behaviour in the population regulation of two syntopic African grassland rodents, the striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio (Sparrman 1784) and the multimammate mouse Mastomys natalensis (A. Smith 1834) (Mammalia Rodentia)

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