Do gorilla females join males to avoid infanticide? A quantitative model

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 905-915

  Harcourt, A H ^a   Greenberg, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; INFANTICIDE; MODEL; PRIMATE;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; GORILLA GORILLA; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0035658995     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1835     Document Type: Article

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