Home-range overlap, social vicinity and agonistic interactions denoting matrilineal organisation in bushbuck, Tragelaphus scriptus

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 819-828

  Wronski, Torsten ^a   Apio, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Bushbuck; Home range overlap; Kinship; Matriline; Social vicinity

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; KINSHIP; PHILOPATRY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNGULATE;

TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 33645065583     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0128-2     Document Type: Article

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