Infant killers of Budongo

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 167-169

  Newton Fisher, Nicholas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Budongo Forest Reserve; Cannibalism; Chimpanzee; Community; Infanticide; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033028062     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000021690     Document Type: Article

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