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Cost-benefit approaches to territoriality: A test with forest primates

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Defense of an area has often been suggested to be more likely when the area contains critical resources which are available more continously, more reliably, or in greater concentration. We report a case in which field experiments and observations of two closely related primate species do not support these expectations. Among other possibilities, the results may indicate conflicting strategies of spacing between males and females.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 47907, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Peter M. Waser

  2. Wellcome Institute of Comparative Physiology, NW1 1R4, London, England

    Katherine Homewood

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Waser, P.M., Homewood, K. Cost-benefit approaches to territoriality: A test with forest primates. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 6, 115–119 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00292557

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