The functional significance of grooming behaviour in higher primates : the case of free-living chimpanzees

The functional significance of grooming behaviour in higher primates : the case of free-living chimpanzees

As a contribution to the existing knowledge of grooming in primates five and a half years of grooming data were examined from a group of free-living chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, to investigate various functional significances of grooming behaviour within the context o...

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Main Author: Slater, Kerry
Other Authors: Prof E Cameron
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Focal sampling
Scan sampling
Copulations
Oestrous
Grooming
Chimpanzees
Pan troglodytes
Ad libitum sampling
UCTD
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28778
Slater, K 2009, The functional significance of grooming behaviour in higher primates : the case of free-living chimpanzees, DPhil thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28778 >
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10172009-103324/

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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28778
Slater, K 2009, The functional significance of grooming behaviour in higher primates : the case of free-living chimpanzees, DPhil thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28778 >
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10172009-103324/

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