Fatal Attack on an Adult Female Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus: Implications for Female Dispersal in Female-Bonded Societies

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1245-1250

  Payne, Hallam F P ^a   Lawes, Michael J ^a   Henzi, S Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Blue monkey; Dispersal; Female competition; Female bonded societies; Guenon; Infanticide

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; INFANTICIDE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS MITIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0347597748     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:IJOP.0000005990.39403.96     Document Type: Article

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