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Grooming Behavior and Cooperative Altruism

Maternal Care and Alloparenting

References

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Case, Verna (2005). Class notes.

DiBitetti, M.S. (1997). Evidence for an important social role of allogrooming in a platyrrhine primate. Animal Behaviour, 54, 199-211.

DiBitetti, M.S. and Janson, C.H. (2001). Social foraging and the finder’s share in capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella. Animal Behavior, 62, 47-56.

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Mason, W.A. and Mendoza, S.P. (1993). Primate Social Conflict. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

O’Brien, T.G. and Robinson, J.G. (1993). Stability of Social Relationships in Female Wedge-Capped Capuchin Monkeys. In Juvenile Primates: Life History, Development, and Behavior. Ed. Michael E. Pereira and Lynn A. Fairbanks. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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Robinson, J.G. and Janson, C.H. (1987). Capuchins, Squirrel monkeys, and Atelines: Socioecological convergence with Old World primates. In Primate Societies. Eds. Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Richard W. Wrangham, and Thomas T. Struhsaker. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

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This webpage was created by Kathleen Tanner in partial fulfillment of requirements for an undergraduate biology class in Animal Behavior at Davidson College in Spring 2005. Questions should be addressed to katanner@davidson.edu.