Mothers matter! Maternal support, dominance status and mating success in male bonobos (Pan paniscus)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1705, 2011, Pages 590-598

  Surbeck, Martin ^a   Mundry, Roger ^a   Hohmann, Gottfried ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apes; Dominance hierarchy; Kinship; Maternal effect; Mating system

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; FITNESS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; KINSHIP; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL EFFECT; PHILOPATRY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

PAN; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 79551623652     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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