'Adoption' by maternal siblings in wild chimpanzees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Hobaiter, Catherine ^a,g   Schel, Anne Marijke ^b,c,g   Langergraber, Kevin ^d,e   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

^d USA   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^g BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOPTION; ADULT; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANIMAL WELLBEING; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SIBLING; SOCIAL BONDING; UGANDA; ANIMAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84905460335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103777     Document Type: Article

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