A non-lévy random walk in chacma baboons: What does it mean?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sueur, Cédric ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; COGNITION; FEMALE; FORAGING; GAIT; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RANDOM WALK; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PAPIO URSINUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; PAPIO URSINUS; WALKING;

EID: 79251579652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016131     Document Type: Article

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