Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Townsend, Simon W ^a   Slocombe, Katie E ^a   Emery Thompson, Melissa ^b   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LETTER; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEX FACTORS;

PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 34247859959     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.020     Document Type: Letter

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