Evidence of allomaternal nursing across one-male units in the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ren, Baoping ^a   Li, Dayong ^a,b   Garber, Paul A ^c   Li, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ALLOMATERNAL NURSING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHINA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORAGE; HAPLORHINI; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; ONE MALE UNIT; REST; RHINOPITHECUS BIETI; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TRAVEL; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

MAMMALIA; OMUS; PRIMATES; PYGATHRIX BIETI;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; LACTATION; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84855649803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030041     Document Type: Article

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