Personality of Wild Male Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Neumann, Christof ^a,b,c,d   Agil, Muhammad ^e   Widdig, Anja ^c,d   Engelhardt, Antje ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BOLDNESS; CONNECTEDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROOMING; MACACA; MALE; NEOPHILIA; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSONALITY; SOCIABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILD ANIMAL;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MACACA; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84881085217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069383     Document Type: Article

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