Male dispersal in a provisioned multilevel group of Rhinopithecus roxellana in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, China

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1280-1288

  Yao, Hui ^a   Liu, Xuecong ^b,c   Stanford, Craig ^c   Yang, Jingyuan ^a   Huang, Tianpeng ^a   Wu, Feng ^a   Li, Yiming ^b  

^a Shennongjia National Nature Reserve   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food availability; Inbreeding avoidance; Male dispersal; Male mating competition; Predation risk; Rhinopithecus roxellana

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DISPERSAL; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PREFERENCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK; PRIMATE;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHINA; COLOBINAE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHINA; COLOBINAE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CHINA; HUBEI; SHENNONGJIA NATURE RESERVE;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; HAMADRYAS; OMUS; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PYGATHRIX ROXELLANA; THEROPITHECUS GELADA;

EID: 80054960719     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.21000     Document Type: Article

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