Maternal responses to dead infants in Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) in the Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China

Primates

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-132

  Li, Tengfei ^a,b   Ren, Baoping ^a   Li, Dayong ^a,c   Zhang, Yunbing ^a,b   Li, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abortion; Death; Mother infant bond; Rhinopithecus bieti; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL CARE; PRIMATE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHINA; DEATH; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHINA; DEATH; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY;

BAIMAXUESHAN NATURE RESERVE; CHINA; YUNNAN;

HAPLORHINI; PRIMATES; PYGATHRIX BIETI;

EID: 84862825846     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-012-0293-7     Document Type: Article

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