Grooming up the hierarchy: The exchange of grooming and rank-related benefits in a new world primate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tiddi, Barbara ^a,b   Aureli, Filippo ^a,c   Schino, Gabriele ^d  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEBUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING; FEMALE; GROOMING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; SEYFARTH MODEL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES DOMINANCE; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA NIGRITUS; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CEBUS; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84860662354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036641     Document Type: Article

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