Paternity alone does not predict long-term investment in juveniles by male baboons

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1471-1482

  Moscovice, Liza R ^a   Heesen, Marlies ^b   Di Fiore, Anthony ^c   Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caretaking; Chacma baboon; Interventions; Juvenile; Papio hamadryas ursinus; Paternity; Playback experiment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFANTICIDE; JUVENILE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PATERNITY; PREDATION RISK; PRIMATE; SOCIAL CONFLICT; WEANING;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; MOREMI GAME RESERVE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO URSINUS;

EID: 70349984730     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0781-y     Document Type: Article

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