Social monitoring via close calls in meerkats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1765, 2013, Pages

  Reber, Stephan A ^a,b,d   Townsend, Simon W ^a,b   Manser, Marta B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Kalahari Meerkat Project   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Close call; Flexible response; Group living; Meerkat; Social context; Social monitoring

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CALLING BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

PRIMATES; SURICATA SURICATTA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; FEMALE; MALE; MONGOOSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HERPESTIDAE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84894782947     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1013     Document Type: Article

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