Infant Mortality Risk and Paternity Certainty Are Associated with Postnatal Maternal Behavior toward Adult Male Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)

Sexually selected infanticide is an important source of infant mortality in many mammalian species. In species with long-term male-female associations, females may benefit from male protection against infanticidal outsiders. We tested whether mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) mothers in s...

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Publié dans:PLoS One
Auteurs principaux: Rosenbaum, Stacy, Hirwa, Jean Paul, Silk, Joan B., Vigilant, Linda, Stoinski, Tara S.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Public Library of Science 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4749219/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26863300
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147441
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