Nutrition or Detoxification: Why Bats Visit Mineral Licks of the Amazonian Rainforest

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Christian C. Voigt ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: voigt@izw-berlin.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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Krista A. Capps,

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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Dina K. N. Dechmann,

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama
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Robert H. Michener,

Affiliation Stable Isotope Laboratory, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Thomas H. Kunz

Affiliation Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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