Variable postpartum responsiveness among humans and other primates with “cooperative breeding”: A comparative and evolutionary perspective

Authors: Sarah B. Hrdy

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: abandonment, allomaternal care, alloparental provisioning in primates, cooperative breeding, infanticide, postpartum responsiveness, social support

2016

The Association of Intergroup Encounters, Dominance Status, and Fecal Androgen and Glucocorticoid Profiles in Wild Male White-Faced Capuchins (Cebus capucinus)

Authors: ValÉRie A. M. Schoof, Katharine M. Jack

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: dominance, endocrinology, infanticide, reproductive competition, reproductive skew

2013

Stable heterosexual associations in a promiscuous primate

Authors: Julia Ostner, Linda Vigilant, Jyotsna Bhagavatula, Mathias Franz, Oliver Schülke

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: assamese macaque, friendship, macaca assamensis, male–female association, mating success, pair bond evolution, paternal care, paternity

2013

Why leopards commit infanticide

Authors: Guy A. Balme, Luke T. B. Hunter

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: carnivore biology, infanticide, leopard, mating strategy, panthera pardus, population dynamics, reproduction, sexual selection

2013

Interspecific Infanticide and Infant-Directed Aggression by Spider Monkeys (Ateles hybridus) in a Fragmented Forest in Colombia

Authors: Rebecca Rimbach, Alejandra Pardo-Martinez, Andres Montes-Rojas, Anthony Di Fiore, Andres Link

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: ateles, infanticide, interspecific aggression, pathological behaviors, resource competition

2012

Living in a dangerous world decreases maternal care: A study in serotonin transporter knockout mice

Authors: Rebecca S. Heiming, Carina Bodden, Friederike Jansen, Lars Lewejohann, Sylvia Kaiser, Klaus-Peter Lesch, Rupert Palme, Norbert Sachser

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: 5-htt knockout mice, adaptation, anxiety, behavioral profile, corticosterone, early adversity, maternal care, maternal effects, prenatal stress

2011

Infanticide risk and infant defence in multi-male free-ranging sooty mangabeys, Cercocebus atys

Authors: Fruteau C, Range F, Noë R.

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: age, immigrant males, infant vulnerability, infanticide, males, multi-male primates, rank

2010

Male infanticide and paternity analyses in a socially natural herd of Przewalski’s horses: Sexual selection?

Authors: Feh, C, Munkhtuya, B.

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: DNA paternityanalysis, human disturbance, maleinfanticide, przewalski's horse(equus ferus przewalskii), sexual selection

2008

Social suppression of female reproductive maturation and infanticidal behavior in cooperatively breeding Mongolian gerbils

Authors: Wendy Saltzman, Shahen Ahmed, Atefeh Fahimi, Daniel J. Wittwer, Frederick H. Wegner

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: alloparental behavior, cooperative breeding, cortisol, gerbil, infanticide, progesterone, prolactin, reproductive suppression

2006

Diminished maternal responsiveness during pregnancy in multiparous female common marmosets

Authors: Wendy Saltzman, David H. Abbott

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: cortisol, estrogen, infanticide, marmoset, maternal behavior, pregnancy, progesterone, prolactin

2005