Japanese macaque cultures: Inter- and intra-troop behavioural variability of stone handling patterns across 10 troops

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 251-281

  Leca, Jean Baptiste ^a   Gunst, Noëlle ^b   Huffman, Michael A ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioural predispositions; Behavioural tradition; Local variants; Macaca fuscata; Stone handling

Indexed keywords

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA; MACACA FUSCATA FUSCATA;

EID: 34547570080     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907780425712     Document Type: Article

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