Social monitoring in a multilevel society: A playback study with male Guinea baboons

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-68

  Maciej, Peter ^a,b   Patzelt, Annika ^a,b   Ndao, Ibrahima ^c   Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a,b   Fischer, Julia ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour ^*  (Germany)

^c Direction de Park National de Niokolo Koba   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Guinea baboon; Multilevel societies; Papio papio; Social attention; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; GPS; HABITAT USE; MALE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

SENEGAL;

PAPIO; PAPIO PAPIO;

EID: 84871932661     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1425-1     Document Type: Article

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