Do friends help each other? Patterns of female coalition formation in wild bonobos at Wamba

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 119, Issue , 2016, Pages 27-35

  Tokuyama, Nahoko ^a   Furuichi, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

agonistic interaction; bonobo; cooperative behaviour; female coalition; mutualism; Pan paniscus; social bond

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; KIN SELECTION; MUTUALISM; PRIMATE; RECIPROCITY;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; ORIENTALE; WAMBA [ORIENTALE];

ANIMALIA; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 84989822707     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.06.021     Document Type: Article

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