Regular ArticleUse and function of genital contacts among female bonobos
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Correspondence: G. Hohmann, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstr. 22, 04103 Leipzig, Germany (email:[email protected]).
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B. Fruth is now also at this address.