Wild female baboons bias their social behaviour towards paternal half-sisters.

Journal Article (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.

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Duke Authors

Alberts, Susan C.

Cited Authors

Smith, K; Alberts, SC; Altmann, J

Published Date

March 2003

Published In

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volume / Issue

270 / 1514

Start / End Page

503 - 510

PubMed ID

12641905

Pubmed Central ID

PMC1691261

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

1471-2954

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0962-8452

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1098/rspb.2002.2277

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