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Using Radio Telemetry to Assess Movement Patterns in a Giant Rhinoceros Beetle: Are There Differences Among Majors, Minors, and Females?

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Acknowledgments

I thank D. Emlen for the telemetry equipment, and B. Tobalske for use of the radar gun. I thank D. Emlen and an anonymous reviewer for comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. I am grateful to L. W. Chang, Y. T. Chen, C. P. Lin, S. F. Lo, and P. F. Pai for helping me find field populations of T. dichotomus. This research was supported by a National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute grant (OISE-0912433).

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McCullough, E.L. Using Radio Telemetry to Assess Movement Patterns in a Giant Rhinoceros Beetle: Are There Differences Among Majors, Minors, and Females?. J Insect Behav 26, 51–56 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10905-012-9334-8

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