Red colobus and Diana monkeys provide mutual protection against predators

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1461-1474

  Bshary, Redouan ^a,b   Noë, Ronald ^a  

^a Max Planck Inst fur V   (Austria)

^b Abteilung Wickler   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIANA MONKEY; INTERSPECIFIC ASSOCIATION; PREDATION; RED COLOBUS MONKEY; SYMPATHY;

COTE D'IVOIRE; TAI NATIONAL PARK;

AVES; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS DIANA; CICONIIFORMES; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS; COLOBUS SP.; MAMMALIA; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS;

EID: 0031470869     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0553     Document Type: Article

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