Chimpanzee grouping patterns and food availability in Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

Primates

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 87-96

  Itoh, Noriko ^a   Nishida, Toshisada ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN MONKEY CENTRE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Fruit availability; Party; Physical limitation; Unit group cohesiveness

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRUIT; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PATCH SIZE; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ETHOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ETHOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; OBSERVATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KIGOMA [TANZANIA]; MAHALE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; SABA COMORENSIS;

EID: 33947228943     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-006-0031-0     Document Type: Article

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