Primate Infant's Effects on Mother's Future Reproduction
- 15 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 201 (4360) , 1028-1030
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.98844
Abstract
Female savanna baboons (Papio cynocephalus) had a longer postpartum amenorrhea and thereafter cycled longer before conceiving if their previous infant survived than if that infant died. Among mothers of surviving infants, differences in maternal care produced differences in age of weaning and age of independence but did not result in differences in interbirth intervals.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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