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Letter: For the record

Published 16 August 2017

• The researchers looking at Rylands' bald-faced saki monkeys eating termite mound mud concluded that they do it to absorb organic toxins in their diet (1 July, p 10).

Issue no. 3139 published 19 August 2017

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