Infanticide as sexual conflict: coevolution of male strategies and female counterstrategies

RA Palombit - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
One of the earliest recognized forms of sexual conflict was infanticide by males, which
imposes serious costs on female reproductive success. Here I review two bodies of …

A global-scale evaluation of primate exposure and vulnerability to climate change

TL Graham, HD Matthews, SE Turner - International Journal of Primatology, 2016 - Springer
Human-induced climate change poses many potential threats to nonhuman primate species,
many of which are already threatened by human activities such as deforestation, hunting …

[HTML][HTML] Yellow fever impact on brown howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba clamitans) in Argentina: a metamodelling approach based on population viability analysis …

ES Moreno, I Agostini, I Holzmann… - Memórias do Instituto …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
In South America, yellow fever (YF) is an established infectious disease that has been
identified outside of its traditional endemic areas, affecting human and nonhuman primate …

Possible male infanticide in wild orangutans and a re-evaluation of infanticide risk

CD Knott, AM Scott, CA O'Connell, KS Scott… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Infanticide as a male reproductive tactic is widespread across mammals, and is particularly
prevalent in catarrhine primates. While it has never been observed in wild orangutans …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating natural disasters into protected area designing for global primate conservation under climate change

L Yang, W Xu, T Chen, Y Fan, P Fan - Geography and Sustainability, 2024 - Elsevier
Disaster risk reduction, an essential function of protected areas (PAs), has been generally
overlooked in PA design. Using primates as a model, we designed a disaster risk index …

Insights into reproductive strategies and sexual selection in howler monkeys

S Van Belle, JC Bicca-Marques - Howler monkeys: Behavior, ecology, and …, 2014 - Springer
The genus Alouatta is characterized by a flexible social system in which the reproductive
strategies of males and females show great variability both within and between species …

Responses towards a dying adult group member in a wild New World monkey

BM Bezerra, MP Keasey, N Schiel, A da Silva Souto - Primates, 2014 - Springer
Compassionate caretaking behaviour towards dying adult group members has been
reported as being unique to humans and chimpanzees. Here we describe in detail the …

Infant loss during and after male replacement in gibbons

CY Ma, WY Brockelman, LEO Light… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
According to the sexual selection hypothesis, infanticide during resident male replacement
is an adaptive strategy that has evolved because the killing of unweaned offspring sired by …

Integrated approaches to howler monkey (Alouatta spp.) medicine in professional care and conservation

E Yarto-Jaramillo, I Çitaku, CE Rodríguez… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Howler monkeys (Alouatta spp.) are threatened by anthropogenic pressures such as habitat
fragmentation and deforestation, while conservation efforts are challenging to coordinate as …

Male reproductive strategies in black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya)

LI Oklander, M Kowalewski… - American journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioral and demographic factors such as group size, social structure, dispersal patterns,
and mating systems affect male reproductive success. In the present study, we analyze the …