Infanticide in a chacma baboon troop |
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Authors: | Erna Burger Tarara |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Primate Research, Box 24481 Karen, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa |
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Abstract: | This report describes an infanticide and two attacks of an infant and a juvenile by a natal adult male in a troop of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). The infanticidal male had become the dominant male in his troop five months before the infanticide suggesting that a trigger for infanticidal behavior is a rise in rank to dominant status. |
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Keywords: | Infanticide Baboon Papio ursinus Botswana |
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