Determinants and Outcomes of Decision-Making, Group Coordination and Social Interactions during a Foraging Experiment in a Wild Primate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pyritz, Lennart W ^a,b   Fichtel, Claudia ^a,b   Huchard, Elise ^a,b   Kappeler, Peter M ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT ANIMAL; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EULEMUR RUFIFRONS; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP DYNAMICS; LEMURIDAE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LEMUR; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; EULEMUR; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 84872234684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053144     Document Type: Article

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