Role of grooming in reducing tick load in wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 559-568

  Akinyi, Mercy Y ^a,b,d   Tung, Jenny ^a,d   Jeneby, Maamun ^a   Patel, Nilesh B ^b   Altmann, Jeanne ^a,c   Alberts, Susan C ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Grooming; Haemoparasitic infection; Papio cynocephalus; Tick

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ECTOPARASITE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GROOMING; HEMOPARASITE; PARASITE INTENSITY; PRIMATE; PROTOZOAN; RANKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TICK;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA MICROTI; IXODIDA; PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84875245069     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.012     Document Type: Article

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