Ballooning behavior in the golden orbweb spider Nephila pilipes (Araneae: Nephilidae)
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Vanessa M. J. Lee, Matjaž Kuntner and Daiqin Li* 1 Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 2 Centre for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China 3 Scientific Research Centre, Institute of Biology, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia 4 Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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