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Whole leaves on intact branches were cropped on <1% of occasions, but 47% of bites cropped from despined branches removed entire leaves; this was a highly significant difference (Chi‐squared test: X 1 2 = 283.13, p < 0.0001).

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mucronata was despined (paired t test: n = 5, t 4 = 3.09, p = 0.0365), but the increase only approached significance for despined D. cinerea and V. karroo (paired t tests: D. cinerea : n = 6, t 5 = 2.33, p = 0.0673; V. karroo : n = 4, t 3 = 2.89, p = 0.0631). 3.2.

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