Cercopithecid locomotion, support use, and support availability in the Tai Forest, Ivory Coast

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 507-522

  McGraw, W Scott ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cercopithecus; Colobus; Forest structure; Positional behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTE D'IVOIRE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOREST; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COTE D'IVOIRE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0029846185     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199608)100:4<507::AID-AJPA5>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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