Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1007-1015

  Moscovice, Liza R ^a   Di Fiore, Anthony ^b   Crockford, Catherine ^c   Kitchen, Dawn M ^d   Wittig, Roman ^c   Seyfarth, Robert M ^e   Cheney, Dorothy L ^e  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

chacma baboon; consortship; friendship; infant care; mating strategy; Papio hamadryas ursinus; paternity

Indexed keywords

INFANTICIDE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PARTURITION; PATERNITY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO URSINUS;

EID: 77950864851     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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