True paternal care in a multi-male primate society

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6954, 2003, Pages 179-181

  Buchan, Jason C ^a   Alberts, Susan C ^a,b   Silk, Joan B ^c   Altmann, Jeanne ^b,d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Brookfield Zoo ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

PRIMATES;

BIODIVERSITY;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL CARE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FITNESS; GROOMING; INFANTICIDE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRESS; AGING; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; COPULATION; FATHER; FEMALE; KENYA; MALE; ODOR; PAPIO; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PRIMATES;

AGING; ANIMALS; COPULATION; CUES; FATHERS; FEMALE; KENYA; MALE; PAPIO; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0141607967     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01866     Document Type: Article

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