Personality in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus): Temporal stability and social rank

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 581-590

  Konečná, Martina ^a   Weiss, Alexander ^b   Lhota, Stanislav ^a,c,e   Wallner, Bernard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Ústí nad Labem Zoo ^*  (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dominance hierarchy; Individual differences; Macaque; Personality; Primates; Retest reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865814562     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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