Social dynamics and individual plasticity of infant care behavior in cooperatively breeding cotton-top tamarins

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 296-306

  Zahed, Sofia Refetoff ^a   Kurian, Aimee V ^a   Snowdon, Charles T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Cotton top tamarin; Individual variation; Infant care

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FRUGIVORY; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; INFANT FEEDING; PARENTAL CARE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIMATE; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BREEDING; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SAGUINUS; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MARMOSETS; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS;

EID: 77449149302     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20782     Document Type: Article

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