Social monitoring and vigilance behavior in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)
β Scribed by Ben T. Hirsch
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5443
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