Queuing and queue-jumping: Long-term patterns of reproductive skew in male savannah baboons, Papio cynocephalus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 821-840

  Alberts, Susan C ^a   Watts, Heather E ^a,c   Altmann, Jeanne ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; MATING SUCCESS; PRIMATE;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0242584391     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2106     Document Type: Article

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