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Index
adenine (A), [>]
Alex, African gray parrot, [>], [>]
American Society for Reproductive Medicine, [>]–[>]
Animal Behaviour, [>]
anoles, [>]
Ant (Sleigh), [>]
anthropomorphism
avoiding, [>], [>], [>]
insects and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
ants
about, [>]
altruism, [>], [>]
aphids and, [>]
automaton stereotype, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
"brood parasitism," [>]
bullet ants, [>]
chemical signatures, [>]
colonies living in crevices/acorns, [>