Fathers have higher motivation for parenting than mothers in common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)

Behaviour

Volumn 148, Issue 11-13, 2011, Pages 1199-1214

  Saito, Atsuko ^a,b,c   Izumi, Akihiro ^b,d   Nakamura, Katsuki ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

alloparental; callitrichids; common marmoset; infant; parental

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455166628     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579511X596598     Document Type: Article

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