A case of infanticide in a recently found gelada population in Arsi, Ethiopia

Primates

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-88

  Mori, Akio ^a   Iwamoto, Toshitaka ^b   Bekele, Afework ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Infanticide; Leadership change; Male takeover; Theropithecus gelada

Indexed keywords

FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; THEROPITHECUS; THEROPITHECUS GELADA;

EID: 0006748707     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02385924     Document Type: Article

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