Social 'predators' within a multilevel primate society

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 653-658

  Pappano, David J ^a   Snyder Mackler, Noah ^b   Bergman, Thore J ^a   Beehner, Jacinta C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bachelor; Group living; Movement; Selfish herd; Spacing; Theropithecus gelada

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; INFANTICIDE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACING;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; THEROPITHECUS; THEROPITHECUS GELADA;

EID: 84865364656     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.06.021     Document Type: Article

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