Why male orangutans do not kill infants

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1549-1562

  Beaudrot, Lydia H ^a   Kahlenberg, Sonya M ^b   Marshall, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Female counterstrategies; Infanticide; Pongo; Protector male hypothesis; Sexual selection hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFANTICIDE; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; PATERNITY; PRIMATE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WILD POPULATION;

MAMMALIA; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 77952669974     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0827-1     Document Type: Review

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