Expectant parents groom adult sons according to previous alloparenting in a biparental cooperatively breeding primate

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 287-297

  Ginther, Anita J ^a   Snowdon, Charles T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

affiliation; aggression; alloparent; biological market; cooperative breeding; cottontop tamarin; infant care; pregnancy; primate; Saguinus oedipus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; ALLOPARENTAL CARE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; GROOMING; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE;

OEDIPUS; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 68349133617     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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