Primate Rituals: The Function of Greetings between Male Guinea Baboons

Ethology

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 847-859

  Whitham, Jessica C ^a   Maestripieri, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PAIR BOND; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

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

EID: 0242654857     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0179-1613.2003.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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