Lactation and Fertility: An Examination of Nursing and Interbirth Intervals in Cotton-Top Tamarins (Saguinus o. oedipus)
- 14 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Brill in Folia Primatologica
- Vol. 40 (4) , 276-282
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000156110
Abstract
Breeding records from a colony of Saguinus o. oedipus were examined to determine the influence of nursing on the return to a fertile status in adult females. The overall interbirth interval (IBI) was 208.5 ± 16.3 days. Nursing status (nursing vs. non-nursing) and number of infants nursed (0, 1 or 2) did not influence IBI. The lack of effects of nursing on fertility appears to be a general trait in callitrichid primates.Keywords
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