The structure of social relationships among female savanna baboons in moremi reserve, Botswana

Behaviour

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 679-703

  Silk, Joan B ^a   Seyfarth, Robert M ^b   Cheney, Dorothy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033423204     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853999501522     Document Type: Article

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