The Organization of Collective Group Movements in Wild Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus): Social Structure Drives Processes of Group Coordination in Macaques

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Seltmann, Anne ^a   Majolo, Bonaventura ^b   Schülke, Oliver ^a   Ostner, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; INTEGRATION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; MOROCCO; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; MOROCCO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84879271641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067285     Document Type: Article

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