Formal submission, tolerance and socioecological models: a test with female Hanuman langurs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 415-428

  Lu, Amy ^a   Koenig, Andreas ^a   Borries, Carola ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression intensity; contest competition; counteraggression; Hanuman langur; presenting; Semnopithecus entellus

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INFANTICIDE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PRESBYTIS ENTELLUS; SEMNOPITHECUS ENTELLUS;

EID: 46849100202     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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