Paternal Relatedness Predicts the Strength of Social Bonds among Female Rhesus Macaques

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Schülke, Oliver ^a   Wenzel, Svenja ^a   Ostner, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MATERNAL RELATEDNESS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATERNAL RELATEDNESS; PREDICTION; RELATIVE; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; OBSERVATION; PEDIGREE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84875198023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059789     Document Type: Article

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