An evaluation of the roles of predation rate and predation risk as selective pressures on primate grouping behaviour

Behaviour

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 411-430

  Hill, R A ^a   Dunbar, R I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0032396061     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853998793066195     Document Type: Review

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