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Amrita Srivathsan assisted with the DNA sequence analysis, Helen Vonow, Martin O’Leary, Rosemary Taplin, Catherine Lynch, Tali Moyle and Trish Mooney with plant identification, Pat Hodgens, Tali Moyle, Kiarrah Smith, Mark le Pla and Samantha Dorries with scat collection, and Jack Tatler with data analyses.
Author contributions Experimental design: HB, RB, DP, KM; data collection: HB, RB, KM; laboratory analyses: AC, HB; writing: HB, AC; revision: all authors.
Conflicts of interest None.
Ethical standards Research was conducted under the Australian Code for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes (2013), with ethics approvals from the South Australian Wildlife Ethics Committee (Project number 15/2014) and the University of Adelaide’s Animal Ethics Committee (Approval number S-2015- 091), and a Permit to Undertake Scientific Research from the Depart- ment of Environment,Water and Natural Resources (Permit number Y26420-1), and otherwise abided by the Oryx guidelines on ethical standards.
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