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

Tomoyuki Matoba; Nobuyuki Kutsukake; Toshikazu Hasegawa

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073044

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

Tomoyuki Matoba ,

* E-mail: tmatoba@darwin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Cognitive and Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Nobuyuki Kutsukake,

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan, Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan
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Toshikazu Hasegawa

Affiliation Department of Cognitive and Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Head Rubbing and Licking Reinforce Social Bonds in a Group of Captive African Lions, Panthera leo

Tomoyuki Matoba,
Nobuyuki Kutsukake,
Toshikazu Hasegawa

Published: September 4, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073044

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