Female chacma baboons form strong, equitable, and enduring social bonds

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1733-1747

  Silk, Joan B ^a   Beehner, Jacinta C ^b   Bergman, Thore J ^b   Crockford, Catherine ^c   Engh, Anne L ^d   Moscovice, Liza R ^d   Wittig, Roman M ^c   Seyfarth, Robert M ^d   Cheney, Dorothy L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboons; Coalitions; Kinship; Social bonds

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FEMALE; FITNESS; KINSHIP; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BOTSWANA; NGAMILAND; OKAVANGO DELTA;

PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO URSINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 77957982614     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0986-0     Document Type: Article

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