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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Auteurs principaux: Tomoyuki Matoba, Nobuyuki Kutsukake, Toshikazu Hasegawa
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/1804cd88a8b7406b9927e9e0e5a7e92f
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