Not without a fair fight: Failed abductions of females in wild hamadryas baboons

Primates

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 249-252

  Pines, Mathew ^a   Swedell, Larissa ^a,b,c  

^a Filoha Hamadryas Project   (Ethiopia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Female transfer; Intergroup encounters; Male competition; Male reproductive strategies; Modular society; Multilevel society; Sexual coercion

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PRIMATE;

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

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

ETHIOPIA;

HAMADRYAS; HAPLORHINI; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 80051781153     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-011-0242-x     Document Type: Article

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