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Paternity alone does not predict long-term investment in juveniles by male baboons

Adult male chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) form preferential associations, or friendships, with particular lactating females. Males exhibit high levels of affiliative contact with their friends’ infants and defend them from potentially infanticidal attacks (Palombit et al. 1997). Little is...

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Autores principales: Moscovice, Liza R., Heesen, Marlies, Di Fiore, Anthony, Seyfarth, Robert M., Cheney, Dorothy L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19816527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-009-0781-y