Gender-related factors affecting primate social behavior: Grooming, rank, age, and kinship in heterosexual and all-male groups of stumptail macaques

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-54

  Butovskaya, Marina L ^a   Kozintsev, Alexander G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Age; Dominance; Gender; Grooming; Kinship; Macaques; Primates; Social structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROOMING; HETEROSEXUALITY; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GROOMING; MACACA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029821858     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199609)101:1<39::AID-AJPA4>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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