Traditions in spider monkeys are biased towards the social domain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Santorelli, Claire J ^a   Schaffner, Colleen M ^a   Campbell, Christina J ^b   Notman, Hugh ^c   Pavelka, Mary S ^d   Weghorst, Jennifer A ^e   Aureli, Filippo ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^f LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIETY; SPIDER MONKEY; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; ATELIDAE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ATELES GEOFFROYI; ATELES SP.; HOMINIDAE; HOMO SAPIENS; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLATYRRHINI;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79952027301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016863     Document Type: Article

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