Male attacks on infants and infant death during male takeovers in wild white-headed langurs (Trachypithecus leucocephalus)

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 365-377

  Yin, Lijie ^a   Jin, Tong ^a,c   Watanabe, Kunio ^b   Qin, Dagong ^a   Wang, Dezhi ^a,c   Pan, Wenshi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infanticide; Male takeover; Sexual selection hypothesis; Trachypithecus leucocephalus; Whiteheaded langur

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHINA; COLOBINAE; FEMALE; INFANTICIDE; MALE; MALE TAKEOVER; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION HYPOTHESIS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TRACHYPITHECUS LEUCOCEPHALUS; WHITE-HEADED LANGUR;

INFANTICIDE; MALE TAKEOVER; SEXUAL SELECTION HYPOTHESIS; TRACHYPITHECUS LEUCOCEPHALUS; WHITE-HEADED LANGUR;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHINA; COLOBINAE; FEMALE; MALE; OBSERVATION; PARTURITION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84902079735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12022     Document Type: Article

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