Coalitions in male Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus: strength, success and rules of thumb

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 329-335

  Bissonnette, Annie ^a   de Vries, Han ^b   van Schaik, Carel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barbary macaque; coalition strength; coalition success; Macaca sylvanus; male male coalition; primates; rule of thumb

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRIMATE;

MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 68349154619     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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