Does troop size of wild Japanese macaques influence birth rate and infant mortality in the absence of predators?

Primates

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 245-251

  Takahata, Yukio ^a   Suzuki, Shigeru ^b   Okayasu, Naobi ^b   Sugiura, Hideki ^b   Takahashi, Hiroyuki ^b   Yamagiwa, Juichi ^b   Izawa, Kosei ^c   Agetsuma, Naoki ^d   Hill, David ^e   Saito, Chiemi ^f   Sato, Shizue ^g   Tanaka, Toshiaki ^h   Sprague, David ⁱ  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Miyagi University of Education   (Japan)

^d North Asia University   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^f JAPAN WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^g Makki International College   (Japan)

^h NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birth rate; Female competition; Infant mortality; M. f. yakui; Macaca fuscata fuscata; Troop size

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; FEMALE COMPETITION; INFANT MORTALITY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TROOP SIZE;

JAPAN, KINKAZAN ISLANDS; JAPAN, YAKUSHIMA ISLANDS;

EID: 0031872179     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02557737     Document Type: Article

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