Third-Party Ranks Knowledge in Wild Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops pygerythrus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Borgeaud, Christèle ^a,c   van de Waal, Erica ^b,c   Bshary, Redouan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c Inkawu Vervet Project   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHLOROCEBUS; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84874786289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058562     Document Type: Article

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