Wild female baboons bias their social behaviour towards paternal half-sisters.
Published
Journal Article
Adult female cercopithecines have long been known to bias their social behaviour towards close maternal kin. However, much less is understood about the behaviour of paternal kin, especially in wild populations. Here, we show that wild adult female baboons bias their affiliative behaviour towards their adult paternal half-sisters in the same manner and to the same extent that they bias their behaviour towards adult maternal half-sisters. Females appear to rely heavily on social familiarity as a means of biasing their behaviour towards paternal half-sisters, but may use phenotype matching as well.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Smith, K; Alberts, SC; Altmann, J
Published Date
- March 2003
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 270 / 1514
Start / End Page
- 503 - 510
PubMed ID
- 12641905
Pubmed Central ID
- 12641905
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1471-2954
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0962-8452
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1098/rspb.2002.2277
Language
- eng