Infant handling and mortality in yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus): Evidence for female reproductive competition?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 328-337

  Kleindorfer, S ^a   Wasser, S K ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant handling; Infant mortality; Infanticide; Primates; Reproductive competition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HANDLING TIME; INFANT MORTALITY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK; MOROGORO [TANZANIA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 4143112654     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0798-1     Document Type: Article

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