Mechanisms determining relationships between feeding group size and foraging success in food patch use by Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1481-1500

  Kazahari, Nobuko ^a,b   Agetsuma, Naoki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

feeding competition; feeding group size; foraging success; patch use; social monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

EID: 77956900670     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X521573     Document Type: Article

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