Social Bonds of Female Baboons Enhance Infant Survival

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5648, 2003, Pages 1231-1234

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^e Brookfield Zoo ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

INFANT SURVIVAL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FITNESS; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFESPAN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; WELLBEING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GROOMING; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; KENYA; PAPIO; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0242414454     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088580     Document Type: Article

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