The ecology of conception and pregnancy failure in wild baboons

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 741-750

  Beehner, Jacinta C ^a   Onderdonk, Daphne A ^a   Alberts, Susan C ^b,c   Altmann, Jeanne ^a,c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^d BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conception; Ecology of reproduction; Estrous cycle; Fetal loss; Papio

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAMMAL; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; AMBOSELI BASIN; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

MAMMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 33747833972     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl006     Document Type: Article

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