The Amboseli baboon research project: 40 years of continuity and change

Long-Term Field Studies of Primates

Volumn 9783642225147, Issue , 2012, Pages 261-287

  Alberts, Susan C ^a   Altmann, Jeanne ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84949178527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22514-7_12     Document Type: Chapter

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