Reconciliation and the costs of aggression in wild Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus): A test of the integrated hypothesis

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 928-937

  McFarland, Richard ^a   Majolo, Bonaventura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PRIMATE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS;

EID: 80052773266     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01948.x     Document Type: Article

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