How males form coalitions against group rivals and the Pandit/van Schaik coalition model

Behaviour

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 907-934

  Young, Christopher ^a   Schülke, Oliver ^a   Ostner, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coalition model; Cooperation; Macaque; Male sociality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901044911     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003166     Document Type: Article

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