Chimpanzees and the mathematics of battle

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1496, 2002, Pages 1107-1112

  Wilson, Michael L ^a   Britton, Nicholas F ^a   Franks, Nigel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Competition; Fighting; Intergroup aggression; Lanchester battles; Numerical assessment

Indexed keywords

PRIMATE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; TAPE RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 53149135487     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1926     Document Type: Article

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