Availability and adaptive value of reproductive and postreproductive Japanese macaque mothers and grandmothers

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 407-414

  MacDonald Pavelka, Mary S ^a,b   Fedigan, Linda M ^a   Zohar, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE VALUE; PRIMATE; SURVIVAL;

JAPANESE MONKEYS; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

EID: 0036401654     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3085     Document Type: Article

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