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TOPICS BONOBO Chimpanzee "Ai" Crania photos Itani Jun'ichiro archives Open datasets for behavioral analysis Guidelines for Care and Use of Nonhuman Primates(pdf) Study material catalogue/database Guideline for field research of non-human primates 2019(pdf) Primate Genome DB 
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Japanese Males with a mother living in their group
have higher paternity success in bonobos but not chimpanzees Surbeck M, Boesch C, Crockford C, Tompson ME, Furuichi T, Fruth B, Hohmann G, Ishizuka S, Machanda Z, Muller MN, Pusey A, Sakamaki T, Tokuyama, N, Walker K, Wrangham R, Wroblewski E, ZZuberbuhler K, Vigilant L, Langergraber K
Abstract
In many group-living mammals, mothers may increase the reproductive success of their daughters even after they are nutritionally independent and fully grown [1]. However, whether such maternal effects exist for adult sons is largely unknown. Here we show that males have higher paternity success when their mother is living in the group at the time of the offspring's conception in bonobos (N = 39 paternities from 4 groups) but not in chimpanzees (N = 263 paternities from 7 groups). These results are consistent with previous research showing a stronger role of mothers (and females more generally) in bonobo than chimpanzee societies. Bibliographic information
Current Biology 29: PR354-355 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30338-0 2019/06/10 Primate Research Institute
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