Development of kin bias among rhesus monkeys: Maternal transmission or individual learning?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 883-894

  Berman, Carol M ^a,b   Kapsalis, Ellen ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PRIMATE;

CAYO SANTIAGO; PUERTO RICO;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032834374     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1221     Document Type: Article

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