Costs of maternal care: infant-carrying in baboons

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 391-398

  Altmann, Jeanne ^a,b,c   Samuels, Amy ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BABOON; INFANT CARRYING; MATERNAL CARE; YELLOW BABOON;

KENYA, AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK;

PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS;

EID: 0026395529     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: 14320762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00170168     Document Type: Article

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