Baboons eavesdrop to deduce mating opportunities

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 885-890

  Crockford, Catherine ^a   Wittig, Roman M ^a   Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

baboon; cognition; eavesdropping; extrapair copulation; mate guarding; Papio hamadryas ursinus; primate; social intelligence; third party relationships; transient relationships

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; MATE GUARDING; MATING SUCCESS; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; HAEMULIDAE; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO URSINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 34247862053     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.016     Document Type: Article

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