Sexual selection in wild baboons: from mating opportunities to paternity success

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1177-1196

  Alberts, Susan C ^a,b   Buchan, Jason C ^a   Altmann, Jeanne ^b,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; PATERNITY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

MAMMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 33750359350     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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