The benefits of social capital: Close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1670, 2009, Pages 3099-3104

  Silk, Joan B ^a   Beehner, Jacinta C ^b   Bergman, Thore J ^b   Crockford, Catherine ^c   Engh, Anne L ^d   Moscovice, Liza R ^d   Wittig, Roman M ^c   Seyfarth, Robert M ^d   Cheney, Dorothy L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboons; Female relationships; Fitness; Primates; Social bonds; Social capital

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; PHILOPATRY; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIALISM; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FITNESS; INTEGRATION; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS URSINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 68849110267     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0681     Document Type: Article

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