Male bonnet macaques use information about third-party rank relationships to recruit allies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-51

  Silk, Joan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMATE; RANKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

MACACA; MACACA RADIATA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032774721     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1129     Document Type: Article

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