Incident of intense aggression by chimpanzees against an infant from another group in Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 175-180

  Kutsukake, Nobuyuki ^a,c   Matsusaka, Takahisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE;

AGE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA; WILD ANIMAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

TANZANIA;

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0036965651     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.10058     Document Type: Article

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