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Bioacoustics
The International Journal of Animal Sound and its Recording
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A Tasmanian devil call encodes identity and decreases agonistic behaviour

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Pages 638-653 | Received 17 Aug 2018, Accepted 07 Jul 2019, Published online: 01 Aug 2019

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