Socially deprived rhesus macaques fail to reconcile: do they not attempt or not accept reconciliation?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 271-277

  Kempes, M M ^a,b   Den Heijer, E ^b   Korteweg, L ^b   Louwerse, A L ^a   Sterck, E H M ^a,b  

^a BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Macaca mulatta; reconciliation; rhesus monkey; social deprivation

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; CAPTIVE POPULATION; LEARNING; PRIMATE; REARING;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 68349150908     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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