Social functions of allogrooming in cooperatively breeding meerkats

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1059-1068

  Kutsukake, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; GROOMING; MAMMAL; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 33750321882     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.02.016     Document Type: Article

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