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Michael H. Robinson, Barbara C. Robinson, Adaptive Complexity: The Thermoregulatory Postures of the Golden-web Spider, Nephila clavipes, at Low Latitudes, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 92, No. 2 (Oct., 1974), pp. 386-396
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