Female reproductive strategies, paternity and community structure in wild west African chimpanzees

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-32

  Gagneux, Pascal ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^b   Woodruff, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; PATERNITY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

COTE D'IVOIRE; TAI FOREST;

PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0033005275     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0972     Document Type: Article

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