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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2009
      November 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511542312
      9780521772952
      9780521774987
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511542312
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.062kg, 584 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.935kg, 584 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Zoology
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    Male primates, carnivores and rodents sometimes kill infants that they did not sire. Infanticide by males is a relatively common phenomenon in these groups, but tends to be rare in any given species. Is this behavior pathological or accidental, or does it reflect a conditional reproductive strategy for males in certain circumstances? In this book, case studies and reviews confirm the adaptive nature of infanticide in males in primates, and help to predict which species should be vulnerable to it. Much of the book is devoted to exploring the evolutionary consequences of the threat of infanticide by males for social and reproductive behavior and physiology. Written for graduate students and researchers in animal behavior, behavioral ecology, biological anthropology and social psychology, this book shows that social systems are shaped not only by ecological pressures, but also social pressures such as infanticide risk.

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    ‘… useful to anyone whose research concerns involve infanticide especially infanticide by primate males.’

    Source: Ethology

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