What drives flexibility in primate social organization?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1677-1692

  Kamilar, Jason M ^a,b   Baden, Andrea L ^c  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Biogeography; Geographic variation; Phylogenetic generalized linearmodels; Socioecology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; COGNITION; DATA SET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84927737723     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-014-1776-x     Document Type: Article

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