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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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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