Male social bonds and rank predict supporter selection in cooperative aggression in wild Barbary macaques

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 95, Issue , 2014, Pages 23-32

  Young, Christopher ^a   Majolo, Bonaventura ^b   Schülke, Oliver ^a   Ostner, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bystander; Coalition; Macaca sylvanus; Male male competition; Recruitment; Social bonds

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE BEHAVIOR; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WILD POPULATION;

MOROCCO;

EID: 84904394961     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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