Assessing dominance hierarchies: Validation and advantages of progressive evaluation with Elo-rating

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 911-921

  Neumann, Christof ^a,b,c,d   Duboscq, Julie ^a,b   Dubuc, Constance ^a,b,c   Ginting, Andri ^a,e   Irwan, Ade Maulana ^a,e   Agil, Muhammad ^e   Widdig, Anja ^c,d   Engelhardt, Antje ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

David's score; Dominance hierarchy; Dominance rank; Elo rating; Hierarchy stability; I SI; Macaca mulatta; Macaca nigra; Methodology

Indexed keywords

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NIGRA;

EID: 81155162598     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.016     Document Type: Note

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