Dominance and feeding success in female Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata: Effects of food patch size and inter-patch distance

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 967-980

  Saito, Chiemi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACACA FUSCATA; ULMACEAE; ZELKOVA SERRATA;

FEEDING SUCCESS; JAPANESE MACAQUE;

EID: 0030131626     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0100     Document Type: Article

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