Dietary Shifts in Relation to Fruit Availability among Masked Palm Civets (paguma Larvata) in Central China
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School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China (YZ, XW, SZ) Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China (YZ, JC) Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China (YZ) Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China (JZ, SZ) Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom (ES) Guangdong Entomological Institute, Guangdong 510260, China (LZ) Department of Applied Biology, Doñana Biological Station, Avenida de Maria Luisa s/n, Pabellón del Perú, Sevilla 41013, Spain (FP)
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