Male mating patterns in wild multimale mountain gorilla groups

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1013-1020

  Robbins, Martha M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE;

GORILLA BERINGEI; GORILLA GORILLA; GORILLA GORILLA BERINGEI; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033135649     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1063     Document Type: Article

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