Maintenance of multifemale social organization in a group of Nomascus concolor at Wuliang Mountain, Yunnan, China

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Fan, Peng Fei ^a,b   Jiang, Xue Long ^b  

^a DALI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Agonistic; Gibbon; Multifemale; Nomascus concolor; Spatial distance; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BREEDING POPULATION; JUVENILE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

CHINA; WULIANG MOUNTAINS; YUNNAN;

HYLOBATIDAE; NOMASCUS CONCOLOR;

EID: 77952675294     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9375-9     Document Type: Article

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