Reciprocal allogrooming in wild impala lambs

Ethology

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 665-680

  Mooring, Michael S ^a,b   Hart, Benjamin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030814198     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1997.tb00177.x     Document Type: Article

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