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Science 12 June 1981:
Vol. 212. no. 4500, pp. 1281 - 1283
DOI: 10.1126/science.212.4500.1281
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Infant Carrying by Male Chacma Baboons

CURT BUSSE 1 and WILLIAM J. HAMILTON III 1

1 Division of Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis 95616

Male chacma baboons, Papio ursinus, carry their offspring during confrontations with higher ranking immigrant males, who are a threat to the infants' lives. The infants sometimes initiate these confrontations by approaching and provoking immigrant males when protective males are close by. Mothers rarely interfere during these interactions.

Submitted on November 24, 1980


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