Revolutionary coalitions in male rhesus macaques

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1889-1908

  Higham, James P ^a,b   Maestripieri, Dario ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

co operation; coalitions; dominance; primate; rank instability; social behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 78649562032     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X539709     Document Type: Article

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