Infanticide risk and infant defence in multi-male free-ranging sooty mangabeys, Cercocebus atys

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-118

  Fruteau, Cécile ^a,b   Range, Friederike ^c   Noë, Ronald ^a  

^a DEPE   (France)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Counter attacks; Model; Resident and immigrant male

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT; INFANTICIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CERCOCEBUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INFANTICIDE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CERCOCEBUS ATYS; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COTE D'IVOIRE; TAI NATIONAL PARK;

CERCOCEBUS TORQUATUS ATYS; PRIMATES;

EID: 72649101690     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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