Understanding escalated aggression over food resources in white-faced capuchin monkeys

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-80

  Vogel, E R ^a,b,c   Munch, S B ^a   Janson, C H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cebus capucinus; coalitions; escalated aggression; resource competition; socioecology; white faced capuchin monkey

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FOOD AVAILABILITY; PRIMATE;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS CAPUCINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 34347256764     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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