Play-partner preferences and the function of social play in infant sable antelope, Hippotragus niger

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1143-1155

  Thompson, Katerina V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIPPOTRAGUS NIGER;

PLAY; SABLE ANTELOPE;

EID: 0030303273     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0261     Document Type: Article

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