Responding to inequities: Gorillas try to maintain their competitive advantage during play fights

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-42

  Van Leeuwen, Edwin J C ^a,b   Zimmermann, Elke ^c   Ross, Marina Davila ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Fairness; Gorillas; Inequity; Social play

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIGHTING; HOMINID; PLAY; RESEARCH WORK;

PRIMATES;

EID: 79551472639     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0482     Document Type: Article

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