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Head Rubbing and Licking Reinforce Social Bonds in a Group of Captive African Lions, Panthera leo

Many social animals have a species-specific repertoire of affiliative behaviours that characterise individualised relationships within a group. To date, however, quantitative studies on intragroup affiliative behaviours in social carnivores have been limited. Here, we investigated the social functio...

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Autores principales: Matoba, Tomoyuki, Kutsukake, Nobuyuki, Hasegawa, Toshikazu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3762833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24023806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073044