Evidence for dominant wild female chimpanzees investing more in sons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 811-815

  Boesch, Christophe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE BEHAVIOUR; PARENTAL INVESTMENT;

COTE D'IVOIRE; TAI NATIONAL PARK;

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030731909     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0510     Document Type: Article

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