First wild evidence of neonate nipple preference and maternal cradling laterality in Old World monkeys: A preliminary study from Rhinopithecus roxellana

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 364-368

  Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Gao, Xiang ^a   Li, Baoguo ^a   Watanabe, Kunio ^b  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Mother infant interactions; Old World monkeys; Qinling Mountains; Rhinopithecus roxellana; Wild

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MATERNAL CARE; NEONATE; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; RESEARCH WORK;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; HANDEDNESS; MATERNAL CRADLING; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NIPPLE PREFERENCE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; COLOBINAE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUCKING BEHAVIOR;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; PRIMATES; PYGATHRIX ROXELLANA;

EID: 39449087577     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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