All together now: behavioural synchrony in baboons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1381-1387

  King, Andrew J ^a,b   Cowlishaw, Guy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chacma baboon; coordination; group behaviour; Papio ursinus; sociality; synchrony

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SYNCHRONY;

PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 70649085920     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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