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Gibbon focused tourism as a conservation tool: the behavioural response of Skywalker hoolock gibbons (Hoolock tianxing) to tourists

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Pages 296-311 | Received 03 Mar 2021, Accepted 02 Nov 2021, Published online: 22 Nov 2021

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