Female "dispersal" in hamadryas baboons: Transfer among social units in a multilevel society

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 360-370

  Swedell, Larissa ^a,b,c,d   Saunders, Julian ^c,d   Schreier, Amy ^d,e   Davis, Brittany ^f   Tesfaye, Teklu ^d   Pines, Mathew ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d Filoha Hamadryas Project   (Ethiopia)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

demography; male reproductive strategies; modular society; one male unit; sexual coercion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79956200644     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21504     Document Type: Article

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