Grooming coercion and the post-conflict trading of social services in wild Barbary macaques.

In animal and human societies, social services such as protection from predators are often exchanged between group members. The tactics that individuals display to obtain a service depend on its value and on differences between individuals in their capacity to aggressively obtain it. Here we analyse...

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Main Authors: Richard McFarland, Bonaventura Majolo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3202593?pdf=render