Behavioural processes in social context: Female abductions, male herding and female grooming in hamadryas baboons

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 238-245

  Polo, Pablo ^a   Colmenares, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bonding; Female abduction; Grooming; Group size; Hamadryas baboon; Herding; Sexual conflict and coercion

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FITNESS; GROOMING; GROUP SIZE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MALE BEHAVIOR; PAIR BOND; PRIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ABDUCTION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABOON; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONFLICT; FEMALE; GROOMING; HOSTILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COERCION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84860534747     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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