Raiding parties of male spider monkeys: Insights into human warfare?

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 486-497

  Aureli, Filippo ^a   Schaffner, Colleen M ^b   Verpooten, Jan ^a   Slater, Kathryn ^b   Ramos Fernandez, Gabriel ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ateles; Coalitionary killing; Fission fusion; Male bonding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE; FOOD; FORAGING; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ATELINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OBSERVATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33751050431     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20451     Document Type: Article

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