Male orang-utan bimaturism and reproductive success at Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1785-1794

  Banes, Graham L ^a,b,c   Galdikas, Biruté M F ^d   Vigilant, Linda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Male bimaturism; Paternity; Reproductive success; Secondary sexual characteristics; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CONSPECIFIC; DOMINANCE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HOME RANGE; HOMINID; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; ORNAMENTATION; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL MATURITY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

CENTRAL KALIMANTAN; INDONESIA; TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK;

MAMMALIA; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 84943198847     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-015-1991-0     Document Type: Article

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