Daytime birth and parturition assistant behavior in wild black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) Yunnan, China

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 94, Issue , 2013, Pages 5-8

  Ding, Wei ^a   Yang, Le ^b   Xiao, Wen ^c  

^a QUJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DALI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Daytime birth; Parturition assistance; Rhinopithecus bieti

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRTH DATE; PARTURITION; PRIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THEORY; BIRTH; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; JUVENILE; LABOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PUERPERIUM; RHINOPITHECUS BIETI; UMBILICAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHINA; COLOBINAE; FEMALE; PARTURITION;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84875351804     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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