Between-Group Variation in Female Dispersal, Kin Composition of Groups, and Proximity Patterns in a Black-and-White Colobus Monkey (Colobus vellerosus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Wikberg, Eva C ^a   Sicotte, Pascale ^a   Campos, Fernando A ^a   Ting, Nelson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS VELLEROSUS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE ANIMAL; GENE NETWORK ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GHANA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; COLOBUS; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; COLOBUS; COLOBUS VELLEROSUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84868709194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048740     Document Type: Article

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