Coordination of group movements in wild Verreaux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi)

Behaviour

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1103-1120

  Trillmich, Julia ^a   Fichtel, Claudia ^a   Kappeler, Peter M ^a  

^a Abteilung Soziobiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Group cohesion; Group movements; Propithecus; Travel calls

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944260592     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539042664579     Document Type: Article

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