Data Descriptor: Personality in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park

Scientific Data

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Weiss, Alexander ^a,b,c   Wilson, Michael L ^d   Collins, D Anthony ^e   Mjungu, Deus ^e   Kamenya, Shadrack ^e   Foerster, Steffen ^f   Pusey, Anne E ^f  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; RECREATIONAL PARK; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; PERSONALITY; TANZANIA;

EID: 85042788296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/SDATA.2017.146     Document Type: Article

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