Third-party interventions keep social partners from exchanging affiliative interactionswith others

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 377-387

  Schneider, Gudrun ^a   Krueger, Konstanze ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equus caballus; Horse; Rank; Social bond; Social network; Third party intervention

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; FERAL ORGANISM; HAREM; HORSE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 84856089149     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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