Forage quality and the costs of lactation for female gelada baboons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 801-805

  Dunbar, R I M ^a   Hannah Stewart, L ^a   Dunbar, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LACTATION; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; THEROPITHECUS; THEROPITHECUS GELADA;

EID: 0036434891     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.9972     Document Type: Article

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