The price of play: Self-organized infant mortality cycles in chimpanzees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Kuehl, Hjalmar S ^a   Elzner, Caroline ^a   Moebius, Yasmin ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^a   Walsh, Peter D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HABITUATION; INFANT MORTALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NATIONAL PARK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PLAY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; MORTALITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; RECREATION; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

PAN;

ANIMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SEASONS;

EID: 49149089486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002440     Document Type: Article

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