Phenotypic assortment in wild primate networks: Implications for the dissemination of information

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Carter, Alecia J ^a   Lee, Alexander E G ^b,c   Marshall, Harry H ^d   Ticó, Miquel Torrents ^b   Cowlishaw, Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chacma baboon; Personality; Phenotypic assortment; Social information; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955396305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140444     Document Type: Article

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