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- Publications
- Influence
The adaptive value of ‘friendships’ to female baboons: experimental and observational evidence
- R. Palombit, R. Seyfarth, D. Cheney
- Psychology, Medicine
- Animal Behaviour
- 1 September 1997
Lactating female baboons, Papio cynocephalusoften maintain close associations with particular males. There are at least three proposed benefits of 'friendships' to females: (1) male protection… Expand
Factors Affecting Reproduction and Mortality Among Baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
- D. Cheney, R. Seyfarth, +7 authors J. Silk
- Biology
- International Journal of Primatology
- 1 April 2004
We present results of a 10-year study of free-ranging gray-footed chacma baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes) in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. The majority of deaths among adult females and juveniles… Expand
Dynamic pair bonds in hylobatids: implications regarding monogamous social systems
- R. Palombit
- Psychology
- 1994
Descriptions of monogamy in the gibbons (Hylobates spp., Hylobatidae) have generally emphasized features derived from inference rather than direct observation: 1) adults mate for life; 2) the genetic… Expand
Infanticide and the evolution of pair bonds in nonhuman primates
- R. Palombit
- Biology
- 1999
Social relationships between adult males and females vary widely among mammals. In general, interactions between the sexes, particularly those of an affiliative nature, are associated with and,… Expand
Friendships between males and lactating females in a free-ranging group of olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis): evidence from playback experiments
- A. Lemasson, R. Palombit, R. Jubin
- Biology
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- 1 April 2008
Close association between an anoestrous female at the time of lactation and adult male(s) is relatively rare in mammals, but common in baboons (Papio hamadryas subsp.). The functional significance of… Expand
Infanticide by males and its implications: Male infanticide and defense of infants in chacma baboons
- R. Palombit, D. Cheney, +4 authors J. Silk
- Biology
- 2000
Infanticide as sexual conflict: coevolution of male strategies and female counterstrategies.
- R. Palombit
- Biology, Medicine
- Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology
- 1 June 2015
One of the earliest recognized forms of sexual conflict was infanticide by males, which imposes serious costs on female reproductive success. Here I review two bodies of evidence addressing coevolved… Expand
Pair bonds and monogamy in wild siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) and white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) in northern Sumatra
- R. Palombit
- Biology
- 1992
- 60
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The function and mechanisms underlying baboon ‘contact’ barks
- D. Cheney, R. Seyfarth, R. Palombit
- Geography
- Animal Behaviour
- 1 September 1996
Free-ranging baboons, Papio cynocephalus ursinus, in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, often give loud 'contact' barks when separated from other group members. Although these calls appear to function to… Expand
Female–female competition for male ‘friends’ in wild chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus)
- R. Palombit, D. Cheney, R. Seyfarth
- Psychology
- Animal Behaviour
- 1 June 2001
Lactating female chacma baboons, Papio cynocephalus ursinus, maintain close associations, or ‘friendships’, with particular males that may protect infants from sexually selected infanticide by a… Expand