Is infant-carrying a courtship strategy in callitrichid primates?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1001-1007

  Tardif, Suzette D ^a   Bales, Karen ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON MARMOSET; COTTON-TOP TAMARIN; COURTSHIP STRATEGY; INFANT CARRYING; MALE BEHAVIOUR;

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS;

EID: 0031128699     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0353     Document Type: Article

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