Infanticide by Males and its Implications

By: Carel P. van Schaik (Editor), Charles H. Janson (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 March 2001

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Male primates, carnivores and rodents sometimes kill infants that they did not sire. Infanticide by males is a relatively common phenomenon in these groups, but tends to be rare in any given species. Is this behavior pathological or accidental, or does it reflect a conditional reproductive strategy for males in certain circumstances? In this book, case studies and reviews confirm the adaptive nature of infanticide in males in primates, and help to predict which species should be vulnerable to it. Much of the book is devoted to exploring the evolutionary consequences of the threat of infanticide by males for social and reproductive behavior and physiology. Written for graduate students and researchers in animal behavior, behavioral ecology, biological anthropology and social psychology, this book shows that social systems are shaped not only by ecological pressures, but also social pressures such as infanticide risk.

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'... useful to anyone whose research concerns involve infanticide especially infanticide by primate males.' Ethology

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Science Biology, Life Sciences Zoology & Animal Sciences Animal Behaviour Zoology & Vertebrates Zoology & Mammals Primates

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The holy wars against infanticide: which side are you on and why?
Infanticide by male primates: the sexual selection hypothesis revisited
Vulnerability to infanticide by males: patterns among mammals
Infanticide by Males: Case Studies
Infanticide in Red Howlers: female group size, male composition and a possible link to folivory
Infanticide in Hanuman Langurs: social organization, male migration and weaning age
Male infanticide and defense of infants in Chacma baboons
Infanticide by males and female choice in wild
The evolution of infanticide in rodents: a comparative analysis
Infanticide by male birds
Behavioural Consequences of Infanticide by Males
Prevention of infanticide: the perspective of infant primates
Infanticide and the evolution of male-female bonds in animals
The other side of the coin: infanticide and the evolution of affiliative male-infant interactions in Old World primates
Female dispersal and infanticide avoidance in primates
Reproductive patterns in eutherian mammals: adaptations against infanticide
Paternity confusion and the ovarian cycles of female primates
Social evolution in primates: the relative roles of ecology and intersexual conflict
Infanticide by Females
Infanticide by female mammals: implications for the evolution of social systems
'The hate that love generated' - sexually selected neglect of one's own offspring in humans
Conclusion
The behavioral ecology of infanticide
References
Index
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