Market effects offset the reciprocation of grooming in free-ranging redfronted lemurs, Eulemur fulvus rufus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-36

  Port, Markus ^a,b   Clough, Dagmar ^a,b   Kappeler, Peter M ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

aggression; biological market; Eulemur fulvus rufus; grooming; reciprocal altruism; redfronted lemur

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; DOMINANCE; GROOMING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRIMATE; RECIPROCITY; TOLERANCE;

EULEMUR FULVUS RUFUS; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 57449099304     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.08.032     Document Type: Article

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