Risk is a Component of Social Relationships in Spider Monkeys

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 691-699

  Rebecchini, Luisa ^a   Schaffner, Colleen M ^a   Aureli, Filippo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GROOMING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; KINSHIP; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PRIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

ANIMALIA; ATELES SP.; PRIMATES;

EID: 79960351632     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01923.x     Document Type: Article

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