Network stability is a balancing act of personality, power, and conflict dynamics in rhesus macaque societies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  McCowan, Brenda ^a,b   Beisner, Brianne A ^a,c   Capitanio, John P ^a,b   Jackson, Megan E ^a   Cameron, Ashley N ^a   Seil, Shannon ^a   Atwill, Edward R ^b   Fushing, Hsieh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ANIMAL WELLBEING; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GROOMING; GROUP STRUCTURE; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MALE; NETWORK STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; RHESUS MONKEY; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; MACACA MULATTA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GROOMING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79961078455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022350     Document Type: Article

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