Paternal kin bias in the agonistic interventions of adult female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 205-214

  Widdig, Anja ^a,b,c   Streich, Wolf Jürgen ^d   Nürnberg, Peter ^e   Croucher, Peter J P ^f   Bercovitch, Fred B ^g   Krawczak, Michael ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^g ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Costs of intervention; Female rhesus macaques; Paternal kin discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; KIN SELECTION; KINSHIP; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATERNAL EFFECT; PRIMATE; RELATEDNESS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAYO SANTIAGO; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33751377229     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0251-8     Document Type: Article

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