Social bonds in female baboons: The interaction between personality, kinship and rank

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 87, Issue C, 2014, Pages 23-29

  Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Silk, Joan B ^b   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Dominance rank; Female; Kinship; Papio hamadryas; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886809239     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.10.008     Document Type: Article

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