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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Veröffentlicht in:PLoS One
Hauptverfasser: Rosenbaum, Stacy, Hirwa, Jean Paul, Silk, Joan B., Vigilant, Linda, Stoinski, Tara S.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science 2016
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Online Zugang: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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