Do meerkats engage in conflict management following aggression? Reconciliation, submission and avoidance

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1441-1453

  Kutsukake, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

aggression; avoidance; conflict management; meerkats; reconciliation; submission; Suricata suricatta

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 40749083512     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.018     Document Type: Article

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