Aggression decreases as play emerges in infant spotted hyaenas: Preparation for joining the clan

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1323-1336

  Drea, Christine M ^a   Hawk, Jason E ^a   Glickman, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLAY; SPOTTED HYAENA;

CROCUTA CROCUTA;

EID: 0030153413     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0136     Document Type: Article

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