The rules of disengagement: Takeovers, infanticide, and dispersal in a rainforest lemur, Propithecus edwardsi

Behaviour

Volumn 146, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 499-523

  Morelli, Toni Lyn ^a,b   King, Stephen J ^a   Pochron, Sharon T ^a   Wright, Patricia C ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments at Centre ValBio   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Inbreeding avoidance; Milne Edwards sifaka; Primate; Ranomafana National Park; Sex biased dispersal

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LEMUR; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; PROPITHECUS; PROPITHECUS EDWARDSI; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 66749190937     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15683908X399554     Document Type: Article

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