Punishment and competition over food in captive rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1939-1947

  Chancellor, Rebecca L ^a   Isbell, Lynne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; contest competition; dominance hierarchy; feeding competition; food distribution; handling time; Macaca mulatta punishment; rhesus macaque

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONTEST COMPETITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HANDLING TIME; PRIMATE;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PRIMATES;

EID: 44349100998     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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