Family feuds: Severe aggression among cooperatively breeding cotton-top tamarins

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 651-663

  Snowdon, Charles T ^a   Pickhard, Jenifer J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Cotton top tamarins; Dispersal; Parent offspring conflict; Sibling conflict

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISPERSAL; GROUP SIZE; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; PRIMATE;

ANIMALIA; ANTHROPOIDEA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS;

EID: 0032711786     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020796517550     Document Type: Article

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