The dining etiquette of desert baboons: The roles of social bonds, kinship, and dominance in co-feeding networks

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 768-774

  King, Andrew J ^a,b   Clark, Fay E ^a,b   Cowlishaw, Guy ^b  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baboon; Co feeding; Grooming; Papio ursinus; Social foraging; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; DOMINANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KINSHIP; PRIMATE; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PAPIO URSINUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PAPIO URSINUS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 79959541228     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20918     Document Type: Article

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