Factors affecting individual participation in group-level aggression among non-human primates

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1551-1581

  Kitchen, Dawn M ^a   Beehner, Jacinta C ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action problems; Competition; Cooperation; Intergroup encounters; Primates

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES;

EID: 36048974222     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907782512074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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