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Short-term and delayed effects of mother death on calf mortality in Asian elephants

Long-lived, highly social species with prolonged offspring dependency can show long postreproductive periods. The Mother hypothesis proposes that a need for extended maternal care of offspring together with increased maternal mortality risk associated with old age select for such postreproductive su...

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Autores principales: Lahdenperä, Mirkka, Mar, Khyne U., Lummaa, Virpi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4718174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26792972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv136