Boys will be boys: Sex differences in wild infant chimpanzee social interactions

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 79-83

  Lonsdorf, Elizabeth V ^a,b   Anderson, Karen E ^b   Stanton, Margaret A ^c   Shender, Marisa ^b   Heintz, Matthew R ^b,d   Goodall, Jane ^e   Murray, Carson M ^c  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LINCOLN PARK ZOO   (United States)

^c THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Mother infant interaction; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii; Sex difference; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DATA SET; HOMINID; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILD POPULATION;

GOMBE NATIONAL PARK; KIGOMA [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII;

EID: 84902662587     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.11.015     Document Type: Article

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