The many faces of helping: possible costs and benefits of infant carrying and food transfer in wild moustached tamarins (Saguinus Mystax)

Behaviour

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 915-934

  Huck, Maren ^a,b   Löttker, Petra ^a,c   Heymann, Eckhard W ^a  

^a Abteilung Verhaltensokologie and Soziobiologie   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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EID: 4944246615     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539042265635     Document Type: Article

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