Interventions and alliance formation between female Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata, during homosexual consortships

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 539-551

  Vasey L, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

ALLIANCE FORMATION; CONSORTSHIP; DOMINANCE; JAPANESE MACAQUE;

EID: 0030222875     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0196     Document Type: Article

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