Visual preferences for sex and status in female rhesus macaques

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 401-407

  Watson, Karli K ^a,d   Ghodasra, Jason H ^b,d   Furlong, Melissa A ^c,d   Platt, Michael L ^a,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominant; Hierarchy; Macaca mulatta; Social; Status; Subordinate

Indexed keywords

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84859711323     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0467-5     Document Type: Article

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