Alternative routes to the leader male role in a multi-level society: Follower vs. solitary male strategies and outcomes in hamadryas baboons

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 679-691

  Pines, Mathew ^a   Saunders, Julian ^a,d   Swedell, Larissa ^a,b,c,d  

^a Filoha Hamadryas Project   (Ethiopia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alternative strategies; Alternative tactics; Conditional strategy; Female defense polygyny; Female transfer; Male competition; Male reproductive strategies

Indexed keywords

LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE BEHAVIOR; NESTEDNESS; POLYGYNY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; MALE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; MALE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ETHIOPIA;

OMUS; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 79956226616     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20951     Document Type: Article

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