Factors Affecting Reproduction and Mortality Among Baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

@article{Cheney2004FactorsAR,
  title={Factors Affecting Reproduction and Mortality Among Baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana},
  author={Dorothy L Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth and Julia Fischer and Jacinta C. Beehner and Thore J. Bergman and S. E. Johnson and Dawn M. Kitchen and Ryne A. Palombit and Drew Rendall and Joan B. Silk},
  journal={International Journal of Primatology},
  year={2004},
  volume={25},
  pages={401-428}
}
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 were due to predation, while infants were more likely to die of infanticide. There were strong seasonal effects on birth and mortality, with the majority of conceptions occurring during the period of highest rainfall. Mortality due to predation and infanticide was highest during the 3-mo period when… 
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