Strategies and counterstrategies to infanticide in mammals

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 321-346

  Ebensperger, Luis A ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Adoption; Cannibalism; Competition; Group defence; Infanticide; Mammals; Maternal aggression; Pregnancy block; Promiscuity; Sexual selection; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING; INFANTICIDE; MAMMAL; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

EID: 0031670058     PISSN: 00063231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0006323198005209     Document Type: Review

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