Grooming for infant handling in tufted capuchin monkeys: a reappraisal of the primate infant market

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1115-1123

  Tiddi, Barbara ^a   Aureli, Filippo ^a   Schino, Gabriele ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

biological market; Cebus apella nigritus; grooming; infant handling; New World primate; tufted capuchin

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; GROOMING; MATERNAL CARE; PRIMATE; WILD POPULATION;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA NIGRITUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 77950862954     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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