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Grooming Up the Hierarchy: The Exchange of Grooming and Rank-Related Benefits in a New World Primate

Seyfarth's model assumes that female primates derive rank-related benefits from higher-ranking females in exchange for grooming. As a consequence, the model predicts females prefer high-ranking females as grooming partners and compete for the opportunity to groom them. Therefore, allogrooming i...

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Autores principales: Tiddi, Barbara, Aureli, Filippo, Schino, Gabriele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3348124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22590582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036641