Social bonds enhance reproductive success in male macaques

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2207-2210

  Schülke, Oliver ^a,b   Bhagavatula, Jyotsna ^b   Vigilant, Linda ^b   Ostner, Julia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THAILAND;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; MACACA; MACACA ASSAMENSIS; PAN;

EID: 78650477339     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.058     Document Type: Article

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