Infant mortality following male takeovers in wild geladas

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1152-1159

  Beehner, Jacinta C ^a   Bergman, Thore J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant death; Infanticide; Interbirth interval; Reproductive strategies; Theropithecus

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFANTICIDE; NATIONAL PARK; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; WEANING; WILD POPULATION;

AGE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEROPITHECUS;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MORTALITY; OBSERVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THEROPITHECUS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SIMIEN MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

IBIS; PRIMATES; THEROPITHECUS; THEROPITHECUS GELADA;

EID: 57349092201     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20614     Document Type: Article

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