Male grunts as mediators of social interaction with females in wild chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus)

Behaviour

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-242

  Palombit, R A ^a   Cheney, D L ^b   Seyfarth, R M ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0033441350     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853999501298     Document Type: Article

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