Hierarchical Classification by-Rank and Kinship in Baboons

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5648, 2003, Pages 1234-1236

  Bergman, Thore J ^a   Beehner, Jacinta C ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a   Seyfarth, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

COGNITIVE SKILLS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BOTSWANA; COGNITION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; LANGUAGE; PAPIO; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 0242497652     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1087513     Document Type: Article

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28. We thank the Office of the President and the Department of Wildlife and National Parks of the Republic of Botswana for permission to conduct research in the Moremi Game Reserve. We are grateful to M. Mokopi for invaluable assistance in the field and to J. Silk for comments. Research was supported by grants from the University of Pennsylvania, the Leakey Foundation, NIH grant MH62249, and an NIH National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellowship to T.J.B.