Quantifying social complexity

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 130, Issue , 2017, Pages 57-66

  Fischer, Julia ^a,b,c   Farnworth, Max S ^a,b   Sennhenn Reulen, Holger ^c   Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a,b,c  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ SCIENCECAMPUS PRIMATE COGNITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barbary macaques; cluster analysis; diversity indices; macaque; primate; social brain hypothesis; social complexity; social relationships

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COMPLEXITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

FRANCE;

MACACA SYLVANUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 85021667732     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.06.003     Document Type: Article

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