Cooperative hunting and group size: Assumptions and currencies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1319-1324

  Creel, Scott ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000105169     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0481     Document Type: Editorial

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