Sex differences in wild chimpanzee behavior emerge during infancy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lonsdorf, Elizabeth V ^a,b   Markham, A Catherine ^c   Heintz, Matthew R ^b,d   Anderson, Karen E ^b   Ciuk, David J ^a   Goodall, Jane ^e   Murray, Carson M ^c  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Lincoln Park Zoo   (United States)

^c THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING; FEMALE; GROOMING; GROUPS BY AGE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INFANCY; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RECREATION; REPRODUCTION; RIDING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUCKLING ANIMAL; TRAVEL; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

EID: 84902682900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099099     Document Type: Article

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