Grooming relationships between breeding females and adult group members in cooperatively breeding moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax)

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1159-1172

  Löttker, Petra ^a,b   Huck, Maren ^a   Zinner, Dietmar P ^a   Heymann, Eckhard W ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grooming; Pay for help; Pay to stay; Saguinus mystax; Tamarins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREEDING POPULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; HYGIENE; PARENTAL CARE; POLYANDRY; PRIMATE; TWINNING;

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COOPERATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROOMING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROOMING; HELPING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SAGUINUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

PRIMATES; SAGUINUS MYSTAX; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 34948898503     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20411     Document Type: Article

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