Generous Leaders and Selfish Underdogs: Pro-Sociality in Despotic Macaques

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Jorg J. M. Massen,

Affiliation Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Lisette M. van den Berg,

Affiliation Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Berry M. Spruijt,

Affiliation Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

* E-mail: E.H.M.Sterck@uu.nl

Affiliations Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Ethology Research, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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Reader Comments

and one individual tends to do so (p<0.01)
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009734#article1.body1.sec2.p2

a small, though unfortunate typo:

p<0.01 should be p<0.10

This typo does not change any of our conclusions nor anything else in the text, since we already treated these results as a trend only.

No competing interests declared.

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