No short-term contingency between grooming and food tolerance in barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

Ethology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 372-382

  Molesti, Sandra ^a   Majolo, Bonaventura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency; Exchange; Grooming; Primate; Reciprocity; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROOMING; HELPING BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; PRIMATE; RECIPROCITY; TOLERANCE;

ANIMALIA; MACACA SYLVANUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84923635624     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12346     Document Type: Article

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