Behaviour accumulation curves: a method to study the completeness of behavioural repertoires

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1551-1553

  Dias, Pedro Américo D ^a   Rangel Negrín, Ariadna ^b   Coyohua Fuentes, Alejandro ^a   Canales Espinosa, Domingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alouatta pigra; black howler; Clench equation; ethogram; nonlineal estimation; repertoire completeness; social interaction

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA PIGRA;

EID: 67349227430     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.015     Document Type: Note

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