Fatal attraction: Interest in infants and infant abuse in rhesus macaques

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-25

  Maestripieri, Dario ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Infant handling; Infant maltreatment; Maternal behavior; Primates

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIMATE; PROGENY; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0032870806     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199909)110:1<17::AID-AJPA2>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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