When females trade grooming for grooming: Testing partner control and partner choice models of cooperation in two primate species

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1223-1230

  Fruteau, Cécile ^a   Lemoine, Sylvain ^b   Hellard, Eléonore ^c   van Damme, Eric ^a   Noë, Ronald ^d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Research and Conservation of Primates and Nature)   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Biological market; Cercocebus atys; Chlorocebus aethiops; Grooming; Hierarchy; Parcelling; Raising the stakes; Time matching

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; RANKING; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

CERCOCEBUS; CERCOCEBUS TORQUATUS ATYS; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; PRIMATES;

EID: 79957757034     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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