Socioecology, but not cognition, predicts male coalitions across primates

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 794-801

  Bissonnette, Annie ^a,b   Franz, Mathias ^a,c   Schülke, Oliver ^a   Ostner, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

brain size; competition; cooperation; demography; males; mating skew

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904393685     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru054     Document Type: Article

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