Maternal Differences in Infant Carriage in Golden-Headed Lion Tamarins(Leontopithecus chrysomelas)
作者:
Linda Van Elsacker,
Walter de Meurichy,
Rudolf Frans Verheyen,
Vera Walraven,
期刊:
Folia Primatologica
(Karger Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 59,
issue 3
页码: 121-126
ISSN:0015-5713
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1159/000156649
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Leontopithecus chrysomelas;Callitrichids;Infant carrying;Infant transfer;Individual variation;Tamarins
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Infant-carrying behaviour was observed in two families of captive golden-headed lion tamarins. Although the young were raised in almost identical social situations, we found a reversed involvement of mother-father pairs in the amount of time they carried their offspring. In one case, the parental division of carrying behaviour was consistent with the standard description for callitrichids in that the adult male was the primary carrier. In the other family, the mother carried the infant considerably more than the male. Comparison of transfer initiations and transfer times showed that maternal choice operated. It is suggested that maternal behavior may depend primarily on the female’s physical and hormonal conditio
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