Friendships between males and lactating females in a free-ranging group of olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis): Evidence from playback experiments

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1027-1035

  Lemasson, A ^a   Palombit, R A ^b   Jubin, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Friendship; Infanticide; Lactation; Olive baboons; Playback

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INFANTICIDE; JUVENILE; LACTATION; PATERNAL CARE; PRIMATE; SONG; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO URSINUS;

EID: 41049083316     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0530-z     Document Type: Article

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