Rhesus monkey behaviour under diverse population densities: Coping with long-term crowding

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 643-662

  Judge, Peter G ^a   De Waal, Frans B M ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR; BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0031238788     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0469     Document Type: Article

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