Separation As A Natural Cue to Danger in the Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 199-207

  Rifkin, Anne ^a   Glickman, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Attachment; Comparative; Crocuta crocuta; Development; Proximity; Reunion; Separation; Spotted hyena; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCUTA CROCUTA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FELIDAE; FEMALE; HAZARD; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; RESPONSIBILITY; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SIBLING; SPOTTED HYENA; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARNIVORA; CUES; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; CROCUTA CROCUTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 1942484922     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20003     Document Type: Article

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