Effect of auxiliary males on territory ownership in the oribi and the attributes of multimale groups

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-71

  Arcese, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TERRITORIALITY; UNGULATE;

SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK; TANZANIA;

OUREBIA OUREBI;

EID: 0033042669     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0962     Document Type: Article

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