Female resistance to invading males increases infanticide in langurs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Ren, Baoping ^a   Li, Dayong ^a,b   He, Xinmin ^d   Qiu, Junhua ^c   Li, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Baimaxueshan National Nature Reserve   (China)

^d Shanghai Wild Animal Park   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFANTICIDE; LANGUR; MALE; MATING; MULTIPARA; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIMIPARA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 79955527278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018971     Document Type: Article

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